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 ...

Yemeni government freezes execution of Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya following intervention by Islamic scholars and Indian ...

The attorney defending Richardson Dangleben Jr. is arguing that the U.S. Attorney’s notice that the office intends to seek the death penalty “should be struck as cruel and unusual,” but ...

If these people escaped the death penalty, you have to wonder: Who will suffer it? Here’s a reasonable guess: An ...

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

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

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

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

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

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

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

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