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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Two men, who are accused of homicide and are facing a potential death sentence, have asked Pennsylvania’s highest court to ...

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

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

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