The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.,

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'

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O previously reported. Death-penalty opponents are urging Democratic Gov. Josh Stein to grant clemency to the 121 remaining death row inmates.

The mother of 5-year-old Missy Mogle could now face the death penalty if convicted of her daughter’s murder. Missy was pronounced dead in May after being found unresponsive at her home in Tallahassee’s Southwood neighborhood.

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 Colorado continue to bar executions on their watch, and 10 other states, along with the federal government and the military, have not had an execution in over 10 years.

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has been a significant point of friction with Mexico’s government.

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 ...