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

It is the quickest pace of capital punishment since March 2022, when 81 people were executed in a single day for ...

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

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

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

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

Death row exonerees Alfred Rivera, Ed Chapman and Henry McCollum meet at an event sponsored by the N.C. Coalition for ...

Many of the presidential candidates are on record opposing capital punishment; Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president who is expected to enter the race in the coming weeks, has supported it.

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

Capital punishment is legal in 29 US states. There are about 2,600 death row inmates, with California detaining the most.

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 ...

It came instead from a Gallup poll released in October that revealed that public support for capital punishment is at its lowest ebb since November 1972—at 60 percent. That date is significant.