An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...

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 ...

The US has carried out 25 executions this year, with 60% concentrated in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina, while new death ...

Yemeni government freezes execution of Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya following intervention by Islamic scholars and Indian ...

The attorney defending Richardson Dangleben Jr. is arguing that the U.S. Attorney’s notice that the office intends to seek the death penalty “should be struck as cruel and unusual,” but ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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