The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

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A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...