WASHINGTON, DC – The Death Penalty Information Center has reported the use of the death penalty in the United States remained ...

Attorney Gilda Daniels and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett denounce Trump's expansion of the federal death penalty, citing racial disparities and systemic injustices.

The Utah Constitution prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment” with language that mirrors the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment. However, Article I, Section 9 of the Utah Constitution extends ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of shooting and killing a young mother, 21 year-old Kandee Martin, in Dorchester County, South Carolina ...

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

Andrew and her lawyers have argued since 2007 that her case is an example of that exact phenomenon—and on January 21, the Supreme Court agreed, reversing a lower court’s ruling against Andrew, whose ...