Two men accused of homicide in Pennsylvania are asking the state Supreme Court to limit a prosecutor's use of the death ...

A group of Philadelphia attorneys specializing in capital murder cases is asking the state Supreme Court to restrict ...

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

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

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 ...

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., ...

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

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