Opponents of the death penalty are bracing for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, fearing it will herald a new round ...

The last time support hovered around 50 percent was in 1972, the year the Supreme Court banned the death penalty. The court ...

Nationwide support for the death penalty has fallen to its lowest level in decades due to shifting attitudes among younger ...

It's argued that retribution is used in a unique way in the case of the death penalty. Crimes other than murder do not receive a punishment that mimics the crime - for example rapists are not ...

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and ... about the possible consequences No-one knows whether the death penalty deters more than life imprisonment Deterrence is most ...

Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the ...

A private-sector panel made up of academics, legislators and other experts has called for a fundamental review of the problem ...

A mistrial was declared after a Sacramento jury on Friday deadlocked in its decision of the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who killed Sacramento police Officer Tara O’Sullivan in a 2019 ambush that ...

Nationwide support for the death penalty has fallen to its lowest level in decades due to shifting attitudes among younger generations, new polling reveals. Today, 53% of American adults are in ...

Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Nov. 13 executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the sixth ...