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.
The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...
Capital punishment has been a feature of America since colonial times and various methods have been used to kill convicts – ...
The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...
Opinion
After a rare execution by firing squad, a fresh call to abolish the death penalty | EditorialMaintaining 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.
citing concerns about the effectiveness and humanity of those proceedings. In his final statement, he expressed love, apologized, and denounced the death penalty using biblical references.
The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.
If the governor is squeamish about the firing squad, perhaps he should be squeamish about the death penalty. | Opinion ...
Alabama in 2024 became the first state to carry out a nitrogen gas execution. Now, at least two states are looking to follow ...
A South Carolina prison inmate convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat will be the first person ...
Law enforcement officers in Wyoming say President Donald Trump’s promise to make the death penalty mandatory for people who ...
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, issued a stay of execution for David Leonard Wood. Wood, 67, had been set to die Thursday over the killings of six girls and ...
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