North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 individuals on death row to life without parole after ...

Capital punishment also hasn’t proven to be much of any deterrent. And it runs the risk, however small, of taking an innocent ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

Sister Helen Prejean is probably not the archetype that comes to mind when you think of a nun, yet she is probably the ...

President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In ...

There's only one problem with the capital punishment debate in America. We never have it. While those of us who believe the ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

President Joe Biden’s statement announcing his decision to commute the sentences of 37 or the 40 prisoners on federal death ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago ...

In its history, the Granite State has executed 26 people. In 2019, New Hampshire ended capital punishment. Was that the right ...

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...