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 ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

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 ...

A team of defense attorneys on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to restrict Washington County District Attorney Jason ...

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In the book of the year about the death penalty, author Evan Mandery chronicles the ugly political process at the Supreme Court that spawned the nation's roiling capital punishment laws.

Virginia’s decision to abolish capital punishment is a move that experts and death penalty abolition advocates is emblematic not only of the nationwide decline of capital punishment, but also a ...

Capital Punishment Bringing Back Federal Death Penalty Will Hit LGBTQ and People of Color the Hardest | Opinion Published Jul 31, 2019 at 12:08 PM EDT Updated Aug 01, 2019 at 9:37 AM EDT ...

A change in philosophy. Conservatives have been slowly turning away from the death penalty for years, as high-profile innocence cases have helped frame capital punishment as a problem of out-of ...

But capital punishment is not such a fearful thing as theoretically it could still be, and as undoubtedly it once was. Gone are the days of preliminary torture, boiling in oil, burning at the ...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...