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.

Legislation proposed by a Susquehanna Valley lawmaker would abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. House Bill 888 would remove the death penalty as an option for punishment for first-degree murder ...

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 - ...

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.

Sociological evidence on the deterrent effect of the death penalty as currently practiced is ambiguous, conflicting, and far from probative. Avery Cardinal Dulles, Catholicism and Capital ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...