The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under a bill headed to the Idaho House, adults who sexually abuse children age 12 and younger in Idaho could be sentenced to ...

The argument about potential sentencing measures comes as Judge Steven Hippler warns defense attorneys and prosecutors on the ...

Legal experts are weighing in on whether introducing autism spectrum disorder as a defense could impact Bryan Kohberger's case.

One recently unsealed document, for example, revealed Kohberger’s request to remove the death penalty as an option ... negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment ...