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 ...

Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, ...

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 - ...

A case brought by ASIC against AustralianSuper sets out how and why profit-to-member fund trustees are treated differently ...

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.

Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf has stated she will be seeking the death penalty for Alex Torres-Santos and Ivan Claudio-Rosero for homicide charges. Both men were allegedly involved ...

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

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

In the last two weeks, several major developments relating to the death penalty occurred across multiple states and they had one significant, yet surprising, thing in common: all of the efforts to ...

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.

While Section 30(1) of Nigeria’s Constitution recognises the death penalty as a form of punishment for heinous crimes, the ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.