Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh told the state Supreme Court that prosecutors have broad discretion to seek ...

The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for ...

Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse previous decisions ...

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On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

President Trump's administration endeavors to reverse death penalty decisions made by predecessors, but faces significant ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

New Delhi- Article 32 of the Constitution empowers the court to reopen sentencing in cases of capital punishment on grounds ...

On paper, thirty-two states and the federal government currently allow capital punishment. But in practice, the death penalty has been largely abandoned throughout most of the United States.

The three-judge bench, however, cautioned that such a right provided to a death row convict should not be misused as an ...

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 ...

This ruling voided the federal and state death penalty laws. However it allowed state legislatures and Congress to write and enact new capital punishment laws. In Gregg v.