While this series of executions has shocked America’s conscience, the unfortunate reality is that they embody well-documented ...

Anti-death penalty advocates fear Supreme Court may change how life circumstances are considered in capital cases. Concerns ...

Augusta University student Laken Riley's murderer was sentenced to life in prison, but he should have been given the death ...

An awkward national spotlight turns toward Terre Haute whenever federal death penalty cases arise. Such moments have been rare for most of the past 31 years, except for one unusual period. And, with ...

For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...

I am struck by how profoundly fear, anger and hatred distorted my beliefs. That despite everything I valued most, I clung to ...

Bryan Kohberger faces a trial next summer in which prosecutors want the option to put him to death for the killings of four ...

Iran continues to force confessions, execute individuals who committed crimes as minors and subject detainees to torture in ...

America is one of only 20 nations on earth, and the only one in the West, that still permits the death penalty. Even one wrongful death at the hands of the government is a clear moral failure.

For many people, the death penalty for especially heinous crimes ... a synonym for “improving,” and a society can become, as America arguably is becoming, infantilized as it “matures.” ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...