While the state leads the nation in executions, 100 Florida faith leaders call on DeSantis to pause what they call ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied Bryon Black's request to have a hearing on whether he is incompetent for capital ...

Amnesty International condemned on Monday a surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in recent years, highlighting particular concern for capital punishment used in cases of drug-related offenses and the ...

Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, death penalty processes are not perfect. Mistakes will occur. Innocent people ...

Mmore than 100 faith leaders are calling on Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to pause all executions before the state breaks its record.

Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right. The death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the state and will inevitably claim innocent victims.

A new report by Amnesty International has revealed that Saudi Arabia has executed over hundred Pakistani nationals for ...

In 1898, the American colonial administration replaced Spain’s. The U.S. Naval government oversaw the island’s legal system and maintained capital punishment as the ultimate punishment.

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Jun. 19—A Decatur man charged with capital murder seeks protection from the death penalty even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to reexamine, in an appeal by the state of Alabama, guidelines ...

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