Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.

Efforts to repeal the death penalty, not carried out in Pennsylvania since 1999, were revived this week with the introduction of legislation backed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The measure - ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

In light of the recent nationwide call for swifter execution of rapists and the Law Advisor’s reponse, we revisit the legal and societal implications of the death penalty for rape ...

She said the death penalty is not a crime deterrent, and it's too high a cost for Iowa's public funds. "The implementation of the death penalty is influenced by the racial undertones of our nation ...

These crimes deserve severe consequences that both exact justice and deter other would-be cop killers. Since half of the states—covering two-thirds of the U.S. population—have abolished or ...

Bryan Kohberger's defense argues that death penalty should be taken off the table for potential sentencing on the basis of his autism diagnosis.