President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse ...

Florida’s ramp-up in executions is happening at the same time public support for the death penalty is at its lowest level in ...

Siegleman spotlighted two recent people condemned to death; Curtis Windom and Kayle Bates, both of whom are Black. He also ...

Florida has already carried out nine executions in 2023, surpassing any other US state. Texas and South Carolina currently ...

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Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, a former prosecutor of child abuse cases, is reintroducing a bill he filed last year to impose ...

President Donald Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in ...

The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for ...

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

Bryan Kohberger allegedly supported the death penalty, despite later trying to avoid it through a plea deal in his murder ...

Capital punishment is like suicide This argument is that the criminal, by choosing to commit a particular crime has also chosen to surrender his life to the state if caught.

The movement against capital punishment is an old one, albeit not as venerable as government-sponsored executions themselves. European reformers, notably the late 18th-century Italian jurist ...