Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

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

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

The criminal justice system should not be in the life-taking business.

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, ...

House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 ...

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

President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty ...

President-elect Trump vowed Tuesday to direct his Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue the death penalty in the wake of ...