Jeffery Lee had raised concerns about use of nitrogen gas and the legacy of an abandoned practice that allowed judges to override juries on death sentences. By Rick Rojas We need a legal standard that ...

If GovGavin Newsom doesn’t issue a mass clemency, Becerra should. And now is the time for him to make that clear to California’s voters.

Former prosecutor Bradford Thomas argues that capital punishment is a necessary tool for justice and moral order.

In March, Virginia abolished capital punishment, startling many Americans. But for close observers, the news wasn’t a huge surprise. “The United States has undergone a sea change in its views toward ...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), left, looks at the electric chair in the death chamber at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt with operations director George Hinkle and warden Larry Edmonds on ...

It is possible — some say, likely — that Virginia will soon abolish the death penalty, making it the 23rd state, and the first Southern one, to do so. Historically, Virginia has put more persons to ...

Alabama inmate James Barber was put to death early Friday morning, in the first execution in the state after a monthslong pause following a series of botched executions nationwide and increased ...

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“Cruel & Unusual.” Leading the attack are the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund. “We have embarked on a major drive to have the death penalty abolished in all 50 ...

In 1608, Jamestown colonists executed a man named Capt. George Kendall, who had been accused of spying for Spain. It was the first recorded execution in what would later become the Commonwealth of ...

India, Sept. 9 -- Additional District and Sessions Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, while pronouncing his 23rd capital punishment in ...