President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In ...

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted ...

In its history, the Granite State has executed 26 people. In 2019, New Hampshire ended capital punishment. Was that the right ...

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 individuals on death row to life without parole after ...

Sister Helen Prejean is probably not the archetype that comes to mind when you think of a nun, yet she is probably the ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

Our readers from across the county give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Kent and beyond. Some letters refer ...

Capital punishment also hasn’t proven to be much of any deterrent. And it runs the risk, however small, of taking an innocent ...

Donald Trump vows to pursue capital punishment following Joe Biden's commutation of federal death row sentences for 37 ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago.