Whether the heart is stopped by a drop or a drug, the act remains a rejection of reformative justice in favour of a ...

Georgia prison officials plan to execute a man next month who was convicted of fatally shooting two real estate agents in ...

Florida has emerged as a national outlier in the application of capital punishment, accounting for 57 percent of all U.S.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Curtis W. Beasley, who was convicted of killing a Dundee woman with a hammer in ...

Tennessee needs to abolish the death penalty. That is the overwhelming consensus of the more than 275 respondents to an. Aug.

The Supreme Court has dismissed a public interest litigation challenging hanging as the sole method of executing death ...

The clock in his hotel room just miles outside Florida State Prison in Raiford, Fla., read 4:53 a.m. The pastor prayed for ...

Talk of reviving the death penalty is back again, and this concerns not just the 800 plus people on ‘death row,’ with ...

Japan executed Sunao Takami for the 2009 Osaka pachinko parlour arson that killed five people. The hanging has renewed scrutiny of the country's secretive death penalty system and abolition debate.

Laura Porter, a prominent death penalty abolition advocate, asserted that the accelerating rate of executions, combined with ...

Only Palestinians -- and not Jewish extremists -- who are convicted of terror offenses will be hanged at the site.

As for the life imprisonment idea – what’s to prevent a future Ohio governor who thinks like DeWine from deciding to reduce ...