South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution came after an unintended 13-year pause on capital punishment in South ...

I believe there are other forms of punishment which can help a schoolchild correct his or her behaviour, but not necessarily corporal punishment which inflicts pain on schoolchildren. I remember when ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the death penalty should be applied only to the most grievous offenses, a ...

The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

The already dying capital punishment system could be eradicated much sooner if evangelical Christians would stop supporting ...

The outlet also reported the death chamber will be preserved for history as it was when it was active. It stated the stopped ...

In Ford v. Wainwright, the court held in 1986 that “insane” people could not be sentenced to die; Atkins v. Virginia in 2002 ...

This report was created with support from enhanced software. Illinois has enacted a landmark ban on corporal punishment in all schools, including private institutions, effective in January. Gov. J.B.

(CNN) — The defense team for Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students, is seeking to remove the death penalty from his case.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The mayor of Alabama’s state capital has signed a local ordinance into law requiring anyone carrying a concealed firearm to also carry a photo ID. The new Montgomery ...