The study will be presented at the World Congress against the Death Penalty (Paris, June 2026), reinforcing the Council of Europe's contribution to this event.

Explore the gruesome history of Immurement, a form of punishment where a person was bricked up in a confined space to die.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD)- South Carolina is expected to move forward with its first execution in over a decade when Richard Moore is put to death on April 29. Moore has been on death row for more than ...

Demetrius Minor is the National Manager of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty. Davis Turner is a retired attorney, whose brother was murdered in Nashville in 2009, and serves on the board ...

WASHINGTON Chalk it up to the eternal conflict between good and evil, but Americans have always been fascinated with crime. The new National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington aims to satisfy ...

Incarceration is a relatively recent development in the history of punishment, with the first modern prison constructed in Philadelphia in the early 1800s. The American penitentiary was intended as a ...

When people are found guilty of committing a crime, a judge will decide how they should be punished. Sometimes they are allowed to live in their own homes and they have to pay a fine or serve their ...

One of the positive things about the media frenzy over cases like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Aurora Theater shooting is that these types of cases remind us there are profound mysteries of the ...

Three scholars of Indian criminal law presented archival research on the history of punishment in India during a webinar panel Monday morning hosted by Harvard’s South Asia Institute. The webinar ...

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King’s words evoke a powerful image, but also leave much to the imagination. What should justice look like? What ...