Roy Cooper’s commutations should signal the death penalty’s end in North Carolina | Opinion
Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
New Orleans attack: Search continues for potential Bourbon Street accomplices as state AG vows death penalty
The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...
Death penalty creates more sorrow, pain for most everyone involved
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...
Families who lost loved ones to violence find relief, doubt in California’s death penalty
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
Death row prisoner asks Arizona for second time to be executed sooner than the state wants
Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty two decades after last execution
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...
Zimbabwe Abolishes The Death Penalty
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
Biden’s death penalty commutations are extraordinary — and insufficient
The criminal justice system should not be in the life-taking business.
South Carolina schedules January 31 execution as death penalty resumes
South Carolina’s Supreme Court scheduled Marion Bowman Jr.’s Jan. 31 execution, amidst legal challenges and a pause for ...
DA’s office no longer seeking death penalty against man accused of murdering local Uber driver
Days before jury selection was set at the courthouse, the District Attorney’s Office announced they will no longer be going ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging
Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago ...