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

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Proponents of the death penalty often claim that capital punishment serves as a deterrent to crime, yet this has not been ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature could soon make first-degree rape and sodomy of a child under 12 punishable by death.

Civil society experts’ abolitionist view on the death penalty is at odds with the public’s anger and want for retributive ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -A new bipartisan state bill about to be introduced would end the death penalty in Ohio. Lawmakers who support the measure call it “inhumane and impractical.” ...

The death penalty is a divisive issue in Ohio. Whether the death penalty will be abolished in Ohio, and what forms it may ...

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has proposed the death penalty for fake drug ...

The agency believes only stiffer measures will deter people from carrying out the illicit act . She also wants the judiciary to do better.

At the press conference organised by the Malaysian chapter of Amnesty International and Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network ...