Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

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

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

Bryan Kohberger allegedly supported the death penalty, despite later trying to avoid it through a plea deal in his murder ...

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

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

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

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

Thirteen other states have effectively abandoned the death penalty in practice, though the law allowing the use of capital punishment remains on the books. The governors of Oregon, Pennsylvania, and ...

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.