The state of Florida, which led the United States with 19 executions in 2025, seems an appropriate place to turn at this ...

Cassy Stubbs, staff attorney for the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project, authored an in-depth rebuttal to last week's AP article, "Studies Say Death Penalty Deters Crime" for The Huffington Post today: ...

Criminal justice and capital punishment experts said data neither supports nor negates the idea that the death penalty or swifter executions deter crime. Daniel Nagin, who chaired the National ...

In a highly controversial move, some Israeli MPs are trying to introduce the death penalty for Palestinian attackers.

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 ...

Concerns about crime have been the foundation for decades of get-tough policies aimed at deterring crime. The belief is that ever-greater punishment — by hiring more police, increasing prosecution, ...

It is possible — some say, likely — that Virginia will soon abolish the death penalty, making it the 23rd state, and the first Southern one, to do so. Historically, Virginia has put more persons to ...

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state carried out its 17th execution Nov. 20, with two more scheduled by the end of ...