With two bills filed in the ongoing legislative session and significant pressure from religious leaders, Louisiana could see an end to the death penalty this year, though it remains a longshot. There ...
An antiabortion demonstrator holds a sign reading “Love Them Both” outside the Supreme Court on May 11 in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg News) Analysis by Philip Bump Both capital punishment ...
IN England around 1800, more than 200 offenses, including forgery, poaching, cutting down somebody else’s tree and associating with gypsies, were punishable by death. Women and children were hanged ...
MP calls for ‘legally binding referendum’ as new poll shows more Britons support bringing back capital punishment than oppose it ...
In 2007 a number of state courts, and the Supreme Court decided to consider whether or not lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Both Mississippi and Nevada's Supreme Courts have ...
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