The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

The estranged husband of an art dealer who was found stabbed to death in Brazil last year has been charged with hiring a hit ...

An Australian woman awaiting trial in the US over the death of her stepdaughter will not face the death penalty. US prosecutors have withdrawn their intention to seek the death penalty "without ...

The European and World Day against the Death Penalty is observed every 10 October. The day serves as reminder that despite the global trend towards the abolition, capital punishment still applies in ...

Stephan Sterns, the man facing a first-degree murder charge and the death penalty, if convicted, in the disappearance and ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous ...

Bondi's memorandum ordered prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in cases involving "the murder of a law-enforcement officer, or a capital crime by an alien illegally present in the United States." ...

He shared his thoughts about the death penalty in a recent interview with The Asahi Shimbun. Hiraoka: The death penalty is, needless to say, about taking human lives. The former justice minister ...

The latest death penalty news from The Texas Tribune. By Ayden Runnels Updated: Feb. 13, 2025 In his final statement, Richard Tabler asked for forgiveness from his victims’ family members ...

Louisiana will resume death penalty executions using nitrogen gas suffocation as a method of execution. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill support ...