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

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

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

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

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after a 20-year hiatus, joining the growing list of countries moving away from capital punishment. In this video, we explore which countries have ...

David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...