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

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

Arizona's top prosecutor says executions will resume in the state following a two-year pause. Arizona Attorney General Kris ...

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 ...

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 ...

Text "plus" to 404-885-7600 to download 11Alive+ and stream it now. No, prosecutors before the trial chose not to pursue the death penalty against Jose Ibarra but, according to Associated Press ...

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

[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 ...

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.” ...

Women committed fewer than 10% of all murders in America between 2000 and 2010 ... Even fewer women actually get executed, Death Penalty Information Center executive director Richard Dieter ...