Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh told the state Supreme Court that prosecutors have broad discretion to seek ...

More than 84 per cent of respondents believed that capital punishment deters the trafficking of drugs into Singapore.

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

Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse previous decisions ...

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

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

The Supreme Court has said that it can revisit its own verdict of a death sentence if it is convinced that the accused has ...

The public prosecutor of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formally requested the death penalty for former president ...

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

Death qualification systematically excludes growing numbers of Americans from jury service. Changing views on the death penalty make the exclusionary effects of death qualification even more ...

In a significant and rare ruling, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the reconsideration of the death penalty imposed on ...