death penalty

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…

As the Trump administration’s Department of Justice prepares to execute Brandon Bernard on Thursday for…

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

An Alabama mayoral candidate—in the 21st century—wants to bring back public hangings as punishment for drug dealers.

Governor Jared Polis officially repealed capital punishment in Colorado on Monday, capping off a heated legislative…

The unfathomably unjust execution of Nathaniel Woods on Friday has sparked widespread outrage and scorn from…

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

The American criminal justice system has no shortage of people who were convicted under questionable if not…

If all goes to plan, Alabama will execute Nathaniel Woods next week, a black man convicted in 2004 of murdering…

Lawyers for Dylann Roof, the avowed white supremacist convicted of killing nine black parishioners in a South…

The curious case of Keith Tharpe, a story that spans nearly three decades, has finally come to its end; although,…

The nation’s highest court on Wednesday is set to review the life sentences handed down in the early aughts to a…

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

Warning: This article does not use euphemisms to refer to the federal government’s killing policies.

Texas lawmakers held a hearing this week on a bill that could subject women to the death penalty if they had an…

The Supreme Court agreed that at least one of the jurors who convicted a Georgia man of murder was a virulent…

There are 737 people on death row in California, and on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom gave them all a reprieve because…

Domineque Ray was born in a country that is proud of its stated principles, which supposedly include justice for all.

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