Two men accused of homicide and facing a potential death sentence if convicted asked Pennsylvania’s highest court to restrict ...

The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence of Timothy W. Fletcher for the 2009 murder of Helen Googe, rejecting ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

Thankfully, the case against me was purely political, and I had the support of relentless advocates and negotiators who ...

A Tuesday filing says Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh misuses capital punishment to pressure defendants into ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

INDIANA – Indiana is set to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10th for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne.

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...