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 ...

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

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

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

Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, a former prosecutor of child abuse cases, is reintroducing a bill he filed last year to impose ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

The article reports on prosecutors seeking the death penalty for YouTuber "Sin City Manny," charged with murdering two ...

Rep. Karen Yarbrough and other supporters made clear, concise points in favor of repeal. They noted that the state has spent more than $100 million over the past decade prosecuting death penalty cases ...

Coincidentally, it was exactly one year ago that Californians got the first comprehensive report on exactly how dysfunctional and expensive the death penalty system already is. On June 30, 2008 the bi ...