TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) - American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, known for the Tony-nominated "Slave Play", was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle ...

Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences ...

The U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a coalition of over 50 organizations, has been launched to abolish capital ...

Catholics and pro-life conservatives formed a coalition of more than 50 organizations seeking to end the death penalty.

A coalition of more than 50 organizations cite declining public support for the death penalty while Ohio lawmakers debate ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lisette Monroe was a 23-year-old new mother in 1988 when she lost her beloved little sister in the ...

Executions in North Carolina could soon resume, after nearly two decades on hold, now that Iryna’s Law is officially in ...

A senior Nigerian lawmaker has sounded the alarm over the alarming rise of kidnapping and insurgency in the country, claiming ...

Nationally, the number of people put to death remains far below the peak in the nineties. The long decline since then, ...

Richard Randolph, a man who was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his manager at a convenience store in 1988, was executed in Florida on Thursday night. It was the 17th death sentence ...

The lawmakers told U.S. troops and members of the intelligence community in the video: "We know you are under enormous pressure right now." The Democrats' actions amounted to "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT ...

A controversial bill proposing the death penalty for Palestinian terrorists — backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — has ignited intense public and political debate. While Netanyahu initially ...