Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

As CNN describes, “Forensic DNA testing from trash outside the Kohberger family home gave Idaho law enforcement the probable ...

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A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Vietnam has officially removed the death penalty for eight criminal offenses, including embezzlement, bribery, and the ...

The Bryan Kohberger plea deal in Idaho is not the first controversial bargain struck by the same District Attorney's Office .

The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

The death of capital punishment in the United States is not only desirable but also paradoxical. Attempts to make this practice constitutional have enveloped it with ever-more-refined procedural ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

Both capital punishment and abortion are complicated things. Many Americans have strong feelings about each, but recognize circumstances in which their views might shift: Abortion opponents might ...