Legislation proposed by a Susquehanna Valley lawmaker would abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. House Bill 888 would remove the death penalty as an option for punishment for first-degree murder ...

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.

The bill, Senate File 320, that advanced out of a Senate subcommittee Wednesday would establish the death penalty for ...

The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...

The argument about potential sentencing measures comes as Judge Steven Hippler warns defense attorneys and prosecutors on the ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Malaysian Bar president Ezri Abdul Wahab also calls for the creation of a regional prisoner transfer agreement.

Efforts to repeal the death penalty, not carried out in Pennsylvania since 1999, were revived this week with the introduction of legislation backed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The measure - ...

In light of the recent nationwide call for swifter execution of rapists and the Law Advisor’s reponse, we revisit the legal and societal implications of the death penalty for rape ...

One recently unsealed document, for example, revealed Kohberger’s request to remove the death penalty as an option ... negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment ...