This move was opposed by many death penalty abolitionists who thought public executions would eventually cause people to cry out against execution itself. For example, in 1835, Maine enacted what ...
One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...
Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...
A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.
Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...
One of his federal charges is eligible for the death penalty. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of ...
A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas ...
If approved, it would abolish the death penalty in Ohio and ban the use of state funds for assisted suicide and abortion. Assisted suicide is already illegal in the state. Three Republicans and ...
Treachery carries the death penalty for those convicted ... Besigye’s trial is “the latest example of Uganda’s authorities misusing military courts and military-related charges to clamp ...