Parents testify at the Texas Capitol urging lawmakers to expand the death penalty for convicted child murderers to include ...

In Louisiana's gas execution method, a death row inmate would be forced to breathe the pure nitrogen through a gas mask ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the ...

Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...

Port Moresby women are demanding the death penalty to be reinstated as punishment for perpetrators of violence against women.

A new bill calls to expand punishment for those convicted of murdering a child 15 years old or younger to include the death ...

Since 1978, when capital punishment was approved by the state Legislature after having been dormant since a state Supreme ...

Arizona is set to carry out its first execution since 2022. Death row inmate Aaron Gunches is set to die by lethal injection ...

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.

The debate over the death penalty has intensified in Pennsylvania, with House Bill 888 now seeking to eliminate capital ...