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

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 ...

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

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

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

Opponents of capital punishment had urged the president to commute death row sentences before Donald Trump — who promised to ...

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

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after a 20-year hiatus, joining the growing list of countries moving away from capital punishment. In this video, we explore which countries have ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the ...

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