South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

Oklahoma State Senator Shane Jett argued a bill seeking to ban using corporal punishment in schools was "in violation of ...

Karolina Kurkova and her husband Archie Drury have filed a lawsuit against the exclusive members-only club on Fisher Island near Miami.

A Senate subcommittee advanced this year’s proposal to reinstate the death penalty in Iowa in cases where a person is found guilty of the intentional killing of a peace officer.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...

Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro was asked for her reaction to two letters Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins sent urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s ability to carry ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of George Ryan, the former governor of Illinois who served time in prison after being convicted on racketeering, conspiracy and fraud charges. Marriage: Lura Lynn ...

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For a long time, that has been the case with the role of race in America’s death penalty system. It is by now well documented that from start to finish—from charging decisions to jury selection, ...

Yet often, courts have found a way to ignore or dismiss those unpleasant facts in their capital punishment jurisprudence. Following a notorious 1987 Supreme Court precedent, McCleskey v.

However, he allowed criminals to be mutilated for their crimes. During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows and they ...