Two men accused of homicide and facing a potential death sentence if convicted asked Pennsylvania’s highest court to restrict ...

Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Utah hasn't used a firing squad in over 15 years - but as the death date of Ralph Menzies' execution looms closer, a larger ...

The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence of Timothy W. Fletcher for the 2009 murder of Helen Googe, rejecting ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

A Tuesday filing says Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh misuses capital punishment to pressure defendants into ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Indiana Republican lawmakers and ...

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named ...

Bryan Kohberger will be sentenced in Idaho Wednesday after a plea deal removing the death penalty, sparking debate on its ...

Bryan Kohberger will be sentenced in Idaho Wednesday after a plea deal removing the death penalty, sparking debate on its ...