Robert Roberson’s case only scratches the surface of the multitude of faults that permeate this system of death in Texas.

Countries that retain the death penalty often argue that the public supports it. In Zimbabwe, research helped challenge this narrative.

It is hard to believe Jesus would execute anyone. Jesus' message was one of compassion and mercy, even as he hung on the ...

Opinion: If you want to deter death penalty crimes, work to encourage more citizen cooperation with law enforcement; seek to end the huge shortage of forensic laboratories and forensic personnel ...

President Joe Biden’s commutation of the death sentences of 37 out of 40 men on federal death row in advance of a Trump administration that’s eager to speed up executions was a meaningful act of ...

Regarding Shadi Hamid’s Dec. 9 online column, “ Is there a right to die? Don’t look to liberals for an answer ”: ...

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

David Sanders not only wants a judge to overturn his death penalty conviction, but to declare a law unconstitutional. The ...

“A lot of the common, you know, rhetoric I get, the phone calls, the emails, is that I’m trying to give women the death penalty, which is the farthest ... at conception with this bill, should allow ...

Today's guest is Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun famous for her activism against the death penalty. In the early 1980s, Prejean met a prisoner on death row—Elmo Patrick Sonnier—after an ...

Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it reviewed its procedures.

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