News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...

South Carolina law allows up to three media members to witness an execution who then share what they saw and heard inside the ...

Over a dozen states wrote in support of Alabama’s appeal, claiming that protections against cruel and unusual punishment have ...

The American Civil Liberties Union joins law firms to argue that capital trial juries in Kansas are racially discriminatory.

South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...

The most common and most cogent argument against capital punishment is that sooner or later, innocent people will get killed, because of mistakes or flaws in the justice system.

Iran has executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man following a personal dispute. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in the predominately Muslim ...

A local court here on Monday awarded capital punishment to a convict in a case of rape and gruesome killing of a minor girl ...

In the wake of a tragic rape and murder case at RG Kar Medical College, junior doctors are calling for CBI action and the ...

Junior doctors in Kolkata are demanding strict action from the CBI and capital punishment for those involved in the rape and ...

The death penalty creates racially biased juries, results in wrongful convictions and does not deter crime, attorneys seeking ...

In the wake of the rape and murder case at Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College, junior doctors have called for the Central ...