As CNN describes, “Forensic DNA testing from trash outside the Kohberger family home gave Idaho law enforcement the probable ...

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

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband​ could bring about a form of punishment long ...

The Network of Digital Newspaper Editors has called on the National Assembly to classify kidnapping as an act of terrorism and make it a capital offence under Nigerian law in the ongoing review of the ...

A dam O’Brien’s converted try got Fax off to the perfect early start in the capital just three minutes in, but Lewis Bienek ...

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

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If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

Vietnam has officially removed the death penalty for eight criminal offenses, including embezzlement, bribery, and the ...

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...