Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has prefiled house bill 20, which calls for an expansion of possible capital punishment ...

Rethinking the death penalty dilemma in Nigeria By Judiciary Reporters (NAN) With hundreds of inmates languishing on death ...

A team of defense attorneys on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to restrict Washington County District Attorney Jason ...

Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

A sessions court in Paschim Medinipur district on July 25, 2023, ordered death penalty for masons Bikash Murmu and Chhotu Munda, while sentencing labourer Tapati Patra to life term after finding them ...

A Volusia Circuit judge continued to hear from lawyers of the already-convicted Deltona Xbox murderers before deciding on ...

Kevin Hines, a contractor maintaining postal machines, was killed during his first shift at a Missouri City USPS facility.

The defendants say Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh misuses capital punishment to pressure defendants into ...

Amid state plans to execute convicted killer Ralph Menzies, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said, "There are probably circumstances" ...

Rep. Matt Simpson says part of the reason behind the bill was a deadly shooting at the Saenger Theatre in June during a ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October 2023 gubernatorial debate with his Republican opponent, Beshear explained that ...