News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...

The American Civil Liberties Union joins law firms to argue that capital trial juries in Kansas are racially discriminatory.

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...

Iran has executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man following a personal dispute. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in the predominately Muslim ...

The death penalty creates racially biased juries, results in wrongful convictions and does not deter crime, attorneys seeking ...

A local court here on Monday awarded capital punishment to a convict in a case of rape and gruesome killing of a minor girl ...

In the wake of a tragic rape and murder case at RG Kar Medical College, junior doctors are calling for CBI action and the ...

Idaho’s (capital punishment) scheme fails utterly to define those who should be death eligible,” said Jay Logsdon, public ...

Junior doctors in Kolkata are demanding strict action from the CBI and capital punishment for those involved in the rape and ...

Experts testified Monday that the death penalty is racially biased, and the flawed system is set up to kill Black men at a ...

In the wake of the rape and murder case at Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College, junior doctors have called for the Central ...