Lott claims that the scientific consensus is that the death penalty is a deterrent, writing: “Most peer-reviewed academic research contends that each additional execution causes there to be ...

Sixty-four percent of liberal Democrats oppose the death penalty (a third of them “strongly”), according to a Pew Research survey published in June 2021. So do 55 percent of postgraduate ...

In an unusual court proceeding that began in October, the ACLU and other attorneys asserted that Kansas' death penalty law ...

The Wyandotte County slaying of four people has prompted a constitutional challenge. TOPEKA — A long-shot constitutional ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” for the country’s most heinous criminals — after President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 mass ...

Some 83% of voters in Hesse were keen to update the local law The German state of Hesse has voted to finally scrap the death penalty from its constitution, amending a 69-year-old legal anomaly ...

While there has been plenty of discipline handed out by the NCAA, including lengthy suspensions and hefty fines, there is only one circumstance of the "death penalty" — and it's as bad as it sounds.