capital punishment

Apparently, the lack of prisoners getting killed is a pressing problem in South Carolina—so much so that the state…

The state of Virginia might still be struggling to get the go-ahead to remove the legacy of Confederate Gen. Robert…

The death penalty—a thing supposedly reserved for perpetrators of the most heinous crimes, typically involving…

Brandon Bernard died by lethal injection last night at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., becoming the…

Five out of nine surviving jurors who condemned Brandon Bernard to death at the age of 18 say they regret their…

Governor Jared Polis officially repealed capital punishment in Colorado on Monday, capping off a heated legislative…

We can be almost sure that there is someone in America’s past who has been wrongfully executed. The law is not…

On Wednesday afternoon, the House Oversight and Reform committee launched an investigation into the Department of…

On the same day that Attorney General William Barr announced his nefarious plan to reinstate capital punishment,…

Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Philadelphia radio journalist convicted and imprisoned almost 40 years for the 1981…

Following years of appeals, a Utah man sentenced to death for a 1985 murder is set to get a new hearing after the…

Having gay sex can get you sentenced to death in Brunei, leading to calls to boycott hotels owned by the religiously…

Washington state’s Supreme Court abolished the death penalty on Thursday on the grounds that it was applied randomly…

In an announcement late Friday, Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Kim Ogg revealed that a former prosecutor…

The Washington state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would ban the death penalty, leading the state one step…

On Tuesday, Sept. 26, if the U.S. Supreme Court does not intercede, the state of Georgia will execute Keith Tharpe.