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 ...

Mother accuses FM Autonomous College's Principal and HOD of mental torture leading to student's self-immolation attempt in ...

While the state leads the nation in executions, 100 Florida faith leaders call on DeSantis to pause what they call ...

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

If these people escaped the death penalty, you have to wonder: Who will suffer it? Here’s a reasonable guess: An ...

The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

With two prisoners set to be executed this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis will achieve the dubious record of having executed more people in a year than any other Florida governor, writes Archbishop ...

The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years closely covering capital punishment. She’s written a powerful and deeply ...

Not a single jury in Oklahoma has issued a new death sentence in the past three years, a sign that public opinion has changed ...

New Mexico abolished the death penalty in 1969. [19] Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts.