The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Death penalty executions in the U.S. and worldwide increased in 2024 over the previous year according to a new Amnesty ...

Whatever arguments are used, the journey toward worldwide rejection of capital punishment will not be concluded quickly. But ...

NEW YORK, NY - A 32 percent increase in global executions has exposed fundamental flaws in criminal justice systems worldwide ...

A viral post claims that Ex-China Premier Wen Jiabao recommended the death penalty as a solution for crime and development in ...

This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at concerns about the rising number of executions in Iran and the deteriorating ...

Prosecutors won’t be allowed to use accused killer Bryan Kohberger’s autism to argue to a jury that he deserves the death penalty in the University of Idaho quadruple homicide case.

No, what is taking shape is slower and less attention-grabbing, but potentially more telling: the risk of back-to-back death crosses forming on the daily chart. Zooming in on the price chart ...

Nathan Hochman is reversing the policy of his predecessor so prosecutors can once again consider pursuing the death penalty in certain ... The systemic biases that lead to those skewed statistics ...

The systemic biases that lead to those skewed statistics are hard to pin down, and often creep in subtly at every step of the legal process. For example, when the murder victim is white, studies show ...

After a three-week long trial and less than an hour of deliberation, the 12 jurors serving in the capital murder trial of Canfield decided against the death penalty on Wednesday morning.

They found Yeva Smilianska guilty of vehicular homicide. Currently, careless driving - causing death carries a maximum penalty of one year in a county jail. If the measure proposed this week were ...