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

The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls.

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

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed petitions in federal court a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

Winkeler was shot between nine to 11 times following a traffic stop at the airport ... Circuit Solicitor's Office filed in May of 2023 a Notice of Intent To Seek The Death Penalty against James Bell ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday which will commute sentences of around 60 prisoners on death row to jail time.

US defense secretary Lloyd Ausin has lost the bid to block the plea deal reached by 9/11 attacks accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and two others which allows them to escape death penalty by pleading ...

Parvais Jabbar is the Executive Director of an international legal NGO specialising in death penalty issues. It is a not for profit organisation and is funded by a number of foundations as well as ...

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa — who has not signed death warrants for those facing capital sentences since he came to power in 2017 — signed the death penalty abolition bill into law ...

It would end the use of the death penalty, convert current death penalty sentences to life in prison without chance of parole, and stop the construction of the new death chamber at the Westville ...