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 ...

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

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

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

Attorney Gilda Daniels and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett denounce Trump's expansion of the federal death penalty, citing racial disparities and systemic injustices.

The year 2024 was quite hectic for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nigeria's public agency, saddled with the task of administering rules against drug trafficking, manufacturing, and ...

“There was no defense at all,” he says, and the death penalty “has been a real deterrent to teen-age crime.” One for the Electric Chair. On the surface at least, Fred Esherick Jr ...

A Republican legislator made a public plea Monday for his bill to abolish Indiana's death penalty, arguing that the state's ...

State Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha has a bill which would abolish the death penalty in Nebraska and replace it with life in prison.

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