"I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty," Brad ...

The sole sponsor of a state resolution aimed at exonerating nearly a dozen colonial Marylanders accused of witchcraft or ...

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists ...

A prayer vigil was held by South Carolinians for an Alternative to the Death Penalty in light of Brad Sigmon’s execution in ...

By Dannel Malloy As a former prosecutor, mayor, governor of Connecticut and a member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, I have spent much of my career in and around the ...

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Prosecutor Bryan Sexton formally accused a 15-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy, and a 16-year-old girl with capital murder in a criminal information sheet filed Monday.

A father pleaded guilty to manslaughter after him and his wife forced their daughter to jump on a trampoline for an extended ...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced the introduction of capital punishment for religious conversions of girls ...