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

Death penalty expert Robert Dunham has shared a new update on the state of capital punishment in the United States, tweeting ...

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

A white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket is requesting to move his death penalty trial to New York City to be judged by a racially diverse jury, according to ...

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 ...

As India prepares to bring back Tahawwur Rana—accused of involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks—the father of a police constable killed in the carnage has ...

The Third Additional District and Sessions Court in Sindhanur sentenced the girl's father, Sannafakeerappa, and relatives Ammanna and Somashekar to death and fined them Rs 47,000 each. The nine others ...

Nathan Hochman is reversing the policy of his predecessor so prosecutors can once again consider pursuing the death penalty in certain ... across our state and the country to create conviction ...

After news broke in early April 2025 that the U.S. Department of Justice would direct prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with killing UnitedHealthcare ...

So it's fair to say that Los Angeles still plays a big part in death penalty discussions nationwide ... led prosecutors across our state and the country to create conviction integrity units ...

I'm a firm supporter of the death penalty in appropriate cases. Premeditated murder is one of those cases. The killer, with malice in his heart toward his victim, has planned out the murder.