Iowans and their elected officials are doing nothing to protect both prison employees and inmates from death. So please ...

Amit Segal is correct that seeing hostages returned from the Hamas terror tunnels “fills the heart with joy” (“This Israel-Hamas Deal Sets a Dangerous Precedent ...

Greg Abbott. Her execution is set for April 27. Melissa Lucio was convicted of capital murder in 2008 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Advocates say the case was mismanaged and that ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...

Her focus is reporting on abortion rights, race, education, sexual abuse and capital punishment. Khaleda joined Newsweek in 2019 and had previously worked at the MailOnline in London, New York and ...

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes suspended capital punishment pending a review of Arizona's death penalty process because the state struggled to insert IVs for three lethal ...

Louisiana will be using the controversial nitrogen gas method for its execution, marking the end of a 15-year hiatus on capital punishment in the state. Arizona will resume executions after ...

Prime minister Keir Starmer’s spokesperson has slapped down suggestions that the UK could bring back capital punishment. Three Reform UK MPs led calls to reinstate the death penalty after the ...

Behavioral psychology says that punishment is an ineffective motivational tool, because its effects are only temporary. While punishment may suppress undesirable behavior temporarily, it fails to ...

In India, capital punishment is supposed to be awarded in the “rarest of rare” situations. The disparity in the sentences of Greeshma and Roy has raised questions about the inconsistent and ...

Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana received the second-longest life sentence in English history and the government does not ever want to see him released, Downing Street has said. Sir Keir ...