Nationwide support for the death penalty has fallen to its lowest level in decades due to shifting attitudes among younger ...

A private-sector panel made up of academics, legislators and other experts has called for a fundamental review of the problem ...

A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

City residents woke up on Wednesday to an all-too-familiar nightmare: a thick, choking haze of smog blanketing the city, ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...

The execution marks the sixth known public execution since the Taliban’s return to power, reigniting international outrage over the group’s use of capital punishment and corporal punishment, which ...

A mistrial was declared after a Sacramento jury on Friday deadlocked in its decision of the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who killed Sacramento police Officer Tara O’Sullivan in a 2019 ambush that ...

The court ruled that the brutal killings, which stemmed from a property dispute, met the “rarest of rare” standard required for capital punishment ...

The ruling military junta of Burkina Faso is allegedly discussing the reintroduction of the death penalty for terrorism and ...

FRANCISTOWN: The newly elected President of Botswana Duma Boko has consistently opposed the death penalty, which has been ...