A bill signed into law Tuesday by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp would make it easier to keep people with intellectual disabilities off death row when they’re convicted of a crime.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a verdict that brings a closure to the trial in the Nanthancode mass murder that shook the state, the ...

Death penalty abolitionists rallied at Legislative Hall on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to support House Bill 35, which ...

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post. (photo: Nick Fewings/Unsplash) ...

If the state of Indiana moves forward with the execution of convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie on May 20 as planned, the ...

According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several ...

Last year a Connecticut firm said it stopped manufacturing a drug used during lethal injections of criminals, but its website ...

The Death Penalty Information Center report reveals a disturbing pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in the death penalty ...

If the state of Indiana moves forward with the execution of convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie on May 20 as planned, the ...

From 1976 to 2015, 80% of the state's capital sentences were reversed on appeal ... prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.

Tony West believed in public service. As a Republican, he served five terms in the House and three in the Senate from 1973 ...

As the Rodney Hinton Jr. case begins to get underway in court, we now know that it will be a death penalty case. However, recent history shows that it is much easier said than done to successfully ...