The state of Alabama disagrees: anyone scoring 70 or above on one test, its attorney general contends, is intelligent enough ...

The new initiative points to an increase in the use of the death penalty over the past year as public support for it has ...

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

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

Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the ...

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 ...

"Death sentences are the most serious sanctions that governments can inflict on human beings, so all must be carefully reviewed for accuracy and fairness before an execution is scheduled," said Robin ...

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, ...

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 ...