The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband​ could bring about a form of punishment long ...

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Attorneys for Utah death row inmate Ralph Menzies filed a new petition asking the court to reconsider his competency due to ...

Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so death penalty abolitionists turned much of their efforts to the courts. They finally succeeded on June 29, 1972 in the ...

Amnesty International condemned on Monday a surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in recent years, highlighting particular concern for capital punishment used in cases of drug-related offenses and the ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...