Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

While the state leads the nation in executions, 100 Florida faith leaders call on DeSantis to pause what they call ...

The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years closely covering capital punishment. She’s written a powerful and deeply ...

Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts. They finally succeeded on June 29, 1972 in the ...

Not a single jury in Oklahoma has issued a new death sentence in the past three years, a sign that public opinion has changed ...

A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

The bill is now meant to give more protections to federal officers, judges and federally funded public safety officers, who ...

Mother accuses FM Autonomous College's Principal and HOD of mental torture leading to student's self-immolation attempt in ...