Hope could very well be the defining force behind the drive to abolish capital punishment: hope for redemption, hope for ...

Slaying of four people at Kansas City, Kansas, bar prompts constitutional challenge to Kansas' jury selection method in death ...

I was one of the religious leaders behind the scenes urging President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of people on federal ...

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

The death penalty is arbitrary, capricious, more expensive than non-capital incarcerations and poisoned by racial bias. The ...

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

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

The Biden administration on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind ...

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

The Biden administration has succeeded in blocking a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the ...

Azerbaijan’s leader on Monday accused Moscow of carrying out a “cover up” over a passenger jet crash last month that claimed ...