The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism wrote that the death penalty is a “stain upon civilization and our religious ...

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

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 ...

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

Lynching didn't disappear with America's last public execution in Owensboro, KY — the practice went underground.

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

Williams killed her daughter "in a cold, calculated, and premediated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification," prosecutors wrote. The post 'Dangerous mother' accused of stomping ...

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

Opinion Capital punishment might satisfy retributivist instincts. But it’s still unjust and should be abolished.