President Donald Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in ...

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

President Trump's administration endeavors to reverse death penalty decisions made by predecessors, but faces significant ...

Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...

The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for ...

Thirteen other states have effectively abandoned the death penalty in practice, though the law allowing the use of capital punishment remains on the books. The governors of Oregon, Pennsylvania, and ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

On paper, thirty-two states and the federal government currently allow capital punishment. But in practice, the death penalty has been largely abandoned throughout most of the United States.

Sixty percent of death sentences in the state have been reversed since 1972, according to data from Justice 360, a statewide nonprofit working to reform policies and practices in capital ...