Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

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A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer with time. America's death penalty is dying one generation at a time - Los ...

Capital punishment, say proponents, serves social catharsis. But administering it behind prison walls indicates a healthy squeamishness that should herald abolition. Read more from George F.

Public support for the death penalty is at its lowest level since the Supreme Court suspended capital punishment in 1972. A Pew Research Center poll published late last month revealed that only 49 ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

Both capital punishment and abortion are complicated things. Many Americans have strong feelings about each, but recognize circumstances in which their views might shift: Abortion opponents might ...

Black Americans, as a group, are more likely to oppose the death penalty due to the racist roots of the capital punishment system. As a result, this process disproportionately removes Black Americans ...

By 4–3, the court held that “capital punishment has become incompatible with contemporary standards of decency in Connecticut and, therefore, ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...