Florida has already carried out nine executions in 2023, surpassing any other US state. Texas and South Carolina currently ...

Death row exonerees Alfred Rivera, Ed Chapman and Henry McCollum meet at an event sponsored by the N.C. Coalition for ...

Our state leads the nation in putting killers to death this year, but no one really believes death sentences are working.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed orders to execute more inmates in one year than any other governor in state history.

Opponents of capital punishment on Friday called on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reverse Arkansas' decision to allow ...

Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

Williams killed her daughter "in a cold, calculated, and premediated manner without any pretense of moral or legal ...

Furthermore, my examination of morality shows that capital punishment is not only a just institution, but that in many cases, the state is morally required to obey the will of an individual.

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

Without capital punishment, there exists diminishing marginal returns in terms of yearly sentencing to imprisonment. There is no distinction in the deterrence effect of sentencing someone from 20 ...