Capital punishment is still a polarizing topic in the United States. However, the practice has been long outlawed in various ...

Iowans and their elected officials are doing nothing to protect both prison employees and inmates from death. So please ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights ...

Rights activists in Singapore and Malaysia will hold candlelight vigils to protest capital punishment as Singaporean authorities prepare to execute a Malaysian man for drug trafficking despite mountin ...

Attorneys for Giovannie Clapp, a suspect in the killing of Mahogany Jackson, filed a motion requesting a unanimous jury ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

Regarding the death penalty, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: ...

A Singapore court has granted a stay of execution to a Malaysian man just hours before he was set to be hanged for drug ...

The government’s narcotics bureau website claims it is an offence for citizens and permanent residents to consume drugs in ...

Florida governor is advancing his anti-immigrant crusade with a measure that experts consider unconstitutional ...