Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump signaled he would resume federal executions if he won and make more ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

Kohberger currently faces the death penalty if convicted; his trial in Boise is set for August 2025. BOISE, Idaho — In less ...

The defense planned to call two expert witnesses at the hearing — forensic pathologist Dr. Barbara Wolf and University of Idaho law professor Aliza Cover, whose research has examined capital ...

A prominent Catholic anti-death penalty group is urging outgoing President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of the 40 ...

“Thank you, I think you’ve used your time.” Prosecutors, meanwhile, countered that capital punishment is the law of the land ...

The American Civil Liberties Union joins law firms to argue that capital trial juries in Kansas are racially discriminatory.

Kohberger’s defense team is fighting against capital punishment, arguing that the firing squad method of execution is a ...

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...

Experts testified Monday that the death penalty is racially biased, and the flawed system is set up to kill Black men at a ...

A local court here on Monday awarded capital punishment to a convict in a case of rape and gruesome killing of a minor girl ...