On behalf of the Virginia Justice and Witness Action Network (of the Central Atlantic Conference, United Church of Christ), we write to urge support for legislation to abolish the death penalty in ...

The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, ...

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

While the global trend toward abolishing the death penalty continues, the number of executions worldwide rose in 2024.

In 2024, Rosen decided that he was no longer going to seek the death penalty, noting that the death penalty is racially ...

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT By inches, the death penalty is dying in the U.S. It has been abolished or drastically restricted in 13 states. U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has publicly stated his ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

A coalition of former attorneys general, judges, and prosecutors have filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP and first lady Melania Trump touched down in Kerrville, Texas, on Friday to view the aftermath of the deadly ...

On 17 December last year, the High Court declared illegal the 15th amendment, which abolished the caretaker government system ...

A Minnesota state senator who was shot nine times during an attack in June has been moved to a rehabilitation facility. John Hoffman's family issued Monday night that saying he was out of the ...