Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

The defense plans to call two expert witnesses at the hearing — forensic pathologist Dr. Barbara Wolf and University of Idaho law professor Aliza Cover, whose research has examined capital punishment ...

Along with seeking to throw out the death penalty, Logsdon also called on the court to implement a special phase should his ...

The American Civil Liberties Union joins law firms to argue that capital trial juries in Kansas are racially discriminatory.

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the man who pleaded guilty to the 2019 murder of Sacramento police Officer Tara ...

News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...

South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...

Cassandra Stubbs, director of the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project, speaks with reporters after a hearing on the death ...

A local court here on Monday awarded capital punishment to a convict in a case of rape and gruesome killing of a minor girl ...

Experts testified Monday that the death penalty is racially biased, and the flawed system is set up to kill Black men at a ...