Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute goes ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

Arkansas prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in some rape cases involving children when a new statute takes ...

Ending capital punishment would advance South Korea’s transition to a democracy that respects human rights, including the right to life.

Earlier this month, her attorneys said the court was rushing the process that could determine whether or not the government ...

LUCKNOW: A district court in Auraiyya, central Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman named ...

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

Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops focused on morality in its own campaign to end capital punishment, which was launched in 2005. And from time to time, popes have made special appeals to ...

Bill would make murder while creating a “great risk of death” to other people eligible for capital punishment.

Florida schedules the execution of Kayle Bates for the 1982 murder of Janet White, marking the state's increase in capital ...