[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

As the festivities finished up in Chicago last week, the Democrats quietly removed abolishing the death penalty from the party platform, a move that certainly will not help them distinguish ...

The con facing the death penalty in South Carolina on September 20 is inmate Freddie Eugene Owens, a double murderer. Many states where the practice is legal have struggled for years to acquire ...

The former president is expected to announce at a campaign stop Tuesday night that he’d like to see the death penalty be applied to criminals who fit that bill, the New York Post reported.

As of August 2024, 1,413 people have been executed by lethal injection in the United States since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated. However, some states have experienced shortages of ...

A Ph.D. student charged with killing her friend's newborn baby and abusing the infant's twin brother while babysitting them in Pennsylvania could be sentenced to the death penalty if she is ...

On a March evening last year, death penalty lawyers, scholars and trained investigators gathered in an Atlanta hotel room to celebrate Wiggins v. Smith. The 20-year-old Supreme Court decision declared ...

In 2016, the Democratic Party became the country’s first major political party to formally call for abolishing the death ...

A PhD student charged with killing her friend’s newborn baby and injuring his infant twin brother could face the death penalty if she’s convicted of the horrific crime, according to ...

Donald Trump notoriously spent tens of thousands of dollars on full-page ads in the New York Times calling to bring back the death penalty. “Our youth was stolen from us,” Wise said.

In a rare decision, prosecutors filed a notice last week saying they intend to pursue the death penalty against her. "The decision to seek such is made only after careful and serious consideration ...

Prosecutors in Allegheny County will seek the death penalty if she is convicted (Allegheny County Jail) Detectives investigating the incident noted in their reports that from the tallest point of ...