The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.
Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
Some governments that retain the death penalty, such as Kenya, claim that they can’t abolish it while there is considerable public support for capital punishment ...
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An Arizona death row inmate called on the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and carry out his death sentence ...
Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved a law that will end capital ...
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier ...