Racism taints every stage of death penalty proceedings in California, as the state Supreme Court should acknowledge. It's ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Twenty-two condemned inmates have been transferred to Donovan prison in Otay Mesa, part of a voter-approved measure passed in ...

The Louisiana Supreme Court is having second thoughts about its recent decision granting a new trial to a death-row prisoner ...

While some opposition is to be expected, indications are that the general Zimbabwean public will take the government’s lead on abolition.

Joe Ingle is a death row pastor, and the founder of the Southern Center for Human Rights. His memoir, Too Close to the Flame: With the Condemned Inside the Southern Killing Machine (Forefront Books, ...

A death row convict in Utah faces the firing squad now after the state has decided to move forward with his execution for a ...

On April 23, the Constitutional Court began deliberating the death penalty. Whether it is constitutional is to be determined by the end of July at the earliest.

Chad Doerman, 32, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing his sons - Clayton, 7; Hunter, 4 and Chase, 3 - at ...

Indiana’s death penalty law has not been used since 2009. In a recent article in The Goshen News it was reported that the ...

have filed a motion asking the death penalty be dropped against their client, citing "serious mental illness at time of ...

Attorneys for Chad Doerman, the man accused of shooting and killing his three sons, is requesting the court exclude the death ...