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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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