If convicted murderers had been put to death, they couldn’t now be released to kill again.

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in ...

Arizona death row inmate Aaron Gunches has asked to be executed next month. This comes as Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney ...

The proposal would link capital punishment repeal with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

North Carolina is still feeling the adverse impact of the mandatory death penalty prosecution law, despite its repeal. | ...

Ohio lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would end the death penalty and prohibit state funding for abortions and ...

Democrats and Republicans in the Ohio Statehouse have again joined to try to stop the death penalty in the state. Democratic ...

The Calcutta High Court has reserved its order on two appeals challenging the sentence of Sanjay Roy, convicted for the rape ...

The president is directing the Justice Department to overrule the Supreme Court in cases where the justices have found ...

Days before South Carolina’s next execution, the state’s American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the so-called “shield law” that cleared the way ...

Amid the raging debate over a Kolkata court sentencing R G Kar hospital rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death, legal luminaries are unequivocal in their stand against awarding ...