Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

While the state leads the nation in executions, 100 Florida faith leaders call on DeSantis to pause what they call ...

Miami-Dade Commissioner Marleine Bastien responds to a child's assault at Gwen Cherry Park, promising community safety ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

Capital punishment and maximum-security prisons do not fit into that paradigm for me. My hope is that we, along with the Pope, will find better ways to live up to our highest ideals as American ...

The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

The debate over capital punishment has been longstanding, with advocates arguing it’s a deterrent against serious crime and that justice is served for the victims or victims’ families.

The bill is now meant to give more protections to federal officers, judges and federally funded public safety officers, who ...

Both capital punishment and abortion are complicated things. Many Americans have strong feelings about each, but recognize circumstances in which their views might shift: Abortion opponents might ...

By 4–3, the court held that “capital punishment has become incompatible with contemporary standards of decency in Connecticut and, therefore, ...

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named Priyanka for killing her three sons, all aged six years and below, at the instance ...