In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

Gov. Kay Ivey commuted Charles “Sonny” Burton’s death sentence days before execution for a 1991 robbery where another man ...

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, a 75-year-old man who was on death row for ...

Sister Helen Prejean discussed her decades of advocacy and the new graphic novel adaptation of her best-selling-novel-turned-film "Dead Man Walking." ...

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Soon after the man who killed his father with a shotgun blast to the chest was captured, Renny Cushing ran into a friend at the grocery store, who said that he hoped the culprit would ...

A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers and religious leaders want to abolish the death penalty, citing its financial and human costs.

Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared. But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning against capital ...