The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Iowans and their elected officials are doing nothing to protect both prison employees and inmates from death. So please ...

Capital punishment is often justified with the argument that by executing convicted murderers, we will deter would-be murderers from killing people. The statistical evidence doesn't confirm that ...

Even if capital punishment did act as a deterrent, is it acceptable for someone to pay for the predicted future crimes of others? Some people argue that one may as well punish innocent people ...

The order utilizes falsehoods about the deterrent character of capital punishment, as well as about its constitutionality, to outline a fascistic escalation of the already barbaric practice that ...

Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro was asked for her reaction to two letters Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins sent urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s ability to carry ...

Proponents of the death penalty often claim that capital punishment serves as a deterrent to crime, yet this has not been proven to be true. Indeed, in 2012, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed ...

Supreme Court Justice Abhay Oka criticized the Maharashtra government for its inadequate infrastructure for the judiciary, ...

Capital punishment has long been used in the U.S. as “the ultimate deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest crimes. Our Founders knew well that only capital punishment can bring ...

Yeah, that’s a deterrent. Iowans and their elected ... leaders and challenge them to introduce and vote on a limited capital punishment bill, limited to those prisoners who murder a prison ...