Bryan Kohberger allegedly supported the death penalty, despite later trying to avoid it through a plea deal in his murder ...

Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

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Florida has already carried out nine executions in 2023, surpassing any other US state. Texas and South Carolina currently ...

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

A 67-year-old man convicted of the 1982 murder of a woman he abducted from her office has been put to death by lethal injection in the southern US state of Florida.

Opponents of capital punishment on Friday called on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reverse Arkansas' decision to allow ...

Our state leads the nation in putting killers to death this year, but no one really believes death sentences are working.

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

Capital punishment violates one of the most fundamental principles under widely accepted human rights law—that states must recognize the right to life.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...