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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

Opponents of capital punishment should have been pleased by Joe Biden's commutation of 37 federal death sentences. This one wasn't.

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

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...