Iryna's Law allows convicted individuals to choose between the electric chair, lethal injection, or a firing squad.

Efforts to abolish capital punishment in Ohio are heating up with a bipartisan bill that has drawn the support of former ...

Not all opponents of capital punishment speak with one voice. Some, like Justice Harry Blackmun, who supported the death penalty during most of his term on the Court, finally decided he would "no ...

A search of your newspaper's website shows 70 entries over more than five years about Gov. Jeff Landry’s quest to reactivate capital punishment. Once again, he is invoking some contractual ...

If the death penalty is racist, arbitrary and serves no valid penological purpose, does it violate the Kansas Constitution? The ACLU, together with the ACLU of Kansas and law firm Hogan Lovells US LLP ...

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At a Cabinet meeting on Aug. 26, President Donald Trump proposed seeking the death penalty for anyone convicted of murder in Washington, D.C., claiming the death penalty is “a very strong preventative ...

Not all opponents of capital punishment speak with one voice. Some, like Justice Harry Blackmun, who supported the death penalty during most of his term on the Court, finally decided he would "no ...