Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans ...

Efforts to repeal the death penalty have been introduced in two Republican-led states, with some lawmakers citing their ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

First Baptist Arlington’s senior pastor said his role was to support families affected by the murder of one of the church's ...

State Rep. Matt Simpson, a Daphne Republican, is sponsoring the bill, which lets the state opt for death or life in prison ...

Alabama lawmakers moved forward with a bill allowing the death penalty for child rapists, hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will reassess its 2008 decision that deemed such punishment unconstitutional.

The United Nations has recommended introducing a suspension on application of the death penalty in Bangladesh. "Introduce a moratorium on the application of the death penalty, including in the ...

Idaho House Bill 37 aims to make the firing squad the state's primary means of execution as prosecutors prepare to try Bryan ...

- May 12, 2018: In one of the quickest deliveries of justice the country has seen, a 25-year-old man who kidnapped, raped and ...

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it ...