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 ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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

Former senior special adviser to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, has strongly advocated for ...

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

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