The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

Attorneys for Utah death row inmate Ralph Menzies filed a new petition asking the court to reconsider his competency due to ...

Punjab's government is consulting legal experts to draft a law for stricter punishment for sacrilege against religious ...

As CNN describes, “Forensic DNA testing from trash outside the Kohberger family home gave Idaho law enforcement the probable ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

A dam O’Brien’s converted try got Fax off to the perfect early start in the capital just three minutes in, but Lewis Bienek ...

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A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...