Two men, who are accused of homicide and are facing a potential death sentence, have asked Pennsylvania’s highest court to ...

The defendants say Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh misuses capital punishment to pressure defendants into ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

INDIANA – Indiana is set to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10th for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne.

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