Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended the Commander-in-Chief Inaugural Ball and the Liberty Inaugural ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

Sanjay Roy received a life sentence for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College in 2024. Despite ...

Long Island MS-13 leader Jairo Saenz has admitted to his role in seven brutal murders but will avoid both the death penalty ...

Then there’s the argument about the death penalty being a deterrent. There’s really not much evidence to back that up. In fact, in our own country we have some pretty good stats that would say ...

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals heard arguments Tuesday on whether the sentence of the man who confessed to the 1997 murder of an Oklahoma woman should be upheld.

Davis said he hoped that having the threat of the death penalty hanging over him would draw attention to the “overwhelming misconduct” by the department of justice. The unusual move came after ...

North Carolina is no exception to this national trend. The death penalty is at the end of its rope. There are good reasons why.

I am far less interested in debating the death penalty than I am in seeing it debated accurately. Toward that end, here is my assessment of the claims in John Lott’s recent commentary on the ...

“Bring back the death penalty!” It’s a rare cry – “Get rid of Zuma!” is the other – that seemingly resonates with the same intensity among blacks as it does among whites, in township shebeens as it ...

An Iranian official has said he is willing to assist on humanitarian grounds the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya who has been sentenced to death in ... they could not go back as the country ...