Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state ...

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 ...

MP calls for ‘legally binding referendum’ as new poll shows more Britons support bringing back capital punishment than oppose ...

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 ...

Today, Capital Punishment Project Staff Attorney Brian Stull authored an op-ed for the Charlotte Observer in response to a recent column in which the writer advocated the death penalty because it's ...

Vivian Balakrishnan says capital punishment continues to have public support as a deterrent and to protect society.

Today Capital Punishment Project Director John Holdridge and Staff Attorney Cassandra Stubbs blogged on HuffingtonPost on the myth that the death penalty is an effective deterrent against homicide.

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 ...