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

I’ve made the case for how Biden has previously misused his clemency power. Sadly, we’ve seen similar abuses of power ...

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 ...

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

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

The United Nations has welcomed Zimbabwe's abolition of the death penalty - and called on other countries to do likewise.

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

President Joe Biden’s statement announcing his decision to commute the sentences of 37 or the 40 prisoners on federal death ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

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

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...