Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

Williams killed her daughter "in a cold, calculated, and premediated manner without any pretense of moral or legal ...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...

Opinion Capital punishment might satisfy retributivist instincts. But it’s still unjust and should be abolished.

Capital punishment is legal in 29 US states. There are about 2,600 death row inmates, with California detaining the most.

The unspeakable tragedy in Florida has revived discussion of capital punishment. It is an enduring issue, going back here in Worcester for almost two centuries. On April 21, 1824, The Massachusetts… ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

Many of the presidential candidates are on record opposing capital punishment; Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president who is expected to enter the race in the coming weeks, has supported it.

It came instead from a Gallup poll released in October that revealed that public support for capital punishment is at its lowest ebb since November 1972—at 60 percent. That date is significant.