Capital punishment also hasn’t proven to be much of any deterrent. And it runs the risk, however small, of taking an innocent ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago ...

President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In ...

President Joe Biden’s statement announcing his decision to commute the sentences of 37 or the 40 prisoners on federal death ...

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

In its history, the Granite State has executed 26 people. In 2019, New Hampshire ended capital punishment. Was that the right ...

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted ...

The Utah Supreme Court has signaled interest in a legal challenge filed by a group of death row inmates against the state's ...

President Joe Biden’s commutation of the death sentences of 37 out of 40 men on federal death row in advance of a Trump administration that’s eager to speed up executions was a meaningful act of ...