In the wake of several high-profile capital punishment cases, the death penalty is once again becoming a hot button political…
Rev. Al Sharpton will call upon the U.S. Justice Department to take the lead in capital punishment cases across the…
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A white supremacist gang member was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of a…
The death penalty is a very controversial punishment. Some argue that it is a powerful tool to deter crime and…
With the scheduled execution of Troy Davis in Atlanta, Georgia today, the controversy surrounding the execution is what has the…
While the death penalty has long been a hot-button political issue in the U.S., as of late it has not received as…
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution Thursday of a black man convicted of a double murder…
JARRATT, Va. (AP) — A man who raped and suffocated an 88-year-old woman was executed, becoming Virginia’s first inmate to…
CLEVELAND— A serial killer will be put to death for murdering 11 women and dumping their bodies around his property,…
Judges in Alabama are using their power, ignoring juries and imposing the death penalty on defendants who kill white victims,…
Since 1976, Alabama state judges have overturned 107 jury decisions in capital cases, and in 92 percent of those cases,…
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The planned execution Thursday of a Mexican national has prompted a flurry of appeals on his behalf,…
CHICAGO — Death row in Illinois is dead. On Friday, a ban that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law in…
WASHINGTON — At a hearing scheduled for Monday, December 6, a district court in Texas will decide whether the death…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a stay of execution appeal from Teresa Lewis, scheduled to be the first…
The Racial Justice Act, only the second of its kind in the United States, has given inmates sentenced to death…
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