Director of Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism sends letter to US attorney general calling capital punishment 'a stain upon civilization and our religious conscience' ...

Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for ...

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

Missy was pronounced dead in May after being found unresponsive at her home in Tallahassee’s Southwood neighborhood. Her ...

Death is the worst penalty that our courts can impose. Yet since the 1970s, 197 inmates on death row have been exonerated and that’s out of a population of a few thousand.

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...

Thirteen other states have effectively abandoned the death penalty in practice, though the law allowing the use of capital punishment remains on the books. The governors of Oregon, Pennsylvania, and ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

Sixty percent of death sentences in the state have been reversed since 1972, according to data from Justice 360, a statewide nonprofit working to reform policies and practices in capital ...

Among signs the death penalty may be on life support: • The number of death sentences dropped from a high of 315 in 1996 to 73 last year – half of them coming in just 2% of the nation's ...

On paper, thirty-two states and the federal government currently allow capital punishment. But in practice, the death penalty has been largely abandoned throughout most of the United States.