Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that ...

In an unusual court proceeding that began in October, the ACLU and other attorneys asserted that Kansas' death penalty law ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant ...

If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took ...

Aaron Gunches was convicted of first-degree murder in 2004. After a two-year pause on executions, Arizona wants to kill him.

Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

Mangione was arrested on Dec. 9 at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania after a five-day search. He is currently being held in a ...

In its history, the Granite State has executed 26 people. In 2019, New Hampshire ended capital punishment. Was that the right ...

President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In ...

Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s leader since 2017, has publicly spoken of his opposition to capital punishment. He has cited his experience of being sentenced to death — later changed to 10 years in prison — ...

Prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty against a Pitcairn man accused of killing his Uber driver nearly three ...