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

A lawmaker in the House of Representatives announced plans to introduce legislation that would abolish the death penalty in ...

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.

A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...

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The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

abolish the death penalty in Arizona ... defenders may have little time to prepare an adequate defense. Justice should be equal under the law, but it is not. If it is wrong to kill, how it ...

The two states, Texas and California, with the highest total number of murders both have the death penalty in effect. I would posit that we should abolish the death penalty again, for good ...