A Wyandotte County judge agreed with criticisms of the death penalty, but he said the case was invalid because both ...

Wyandotte County Judge Bill Klapper didn’t strike down Kansas’ death penalty law but appeared highly skeptical of it.

Death penalty executions in the U.S. and worldwide increased in 2024 over the previous year according to a new Amnesty ...

Whatever arguments are used, the journey toward worldwide rejection of capital punishment will not be concluded quickly. But ...

Luigi Mangione's defense team is asking a federal judge to throw out the possibility of the death penalty in the murder of ...

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of ...

Ishmael Petty, who was separately convicted of assaulting prison employees, is the latest to face a possible death sentence ...

We need to pass the Death Penalty Moratorium Act, pausing executions for two years, so we can improve the process and make ...

Lawyers for the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan said the attorney general was putting ...

Gambia's Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a government minister convicted of killing the finance minister to life in prison, one of few to be convicted of crimes committed during the ...