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

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

Robin Myers was convicted of committing murder during a 1991 robbery. Gov. Kay Ivey said evidence in his case was not enough ...

The death penalty has long been a controversial and divisive issue, with passionate advocates on both sides of the debate.

Jerusalem Post op-ed entitled “Should Israel execute Hamas terrorists for war crimes on par with the Nazis?” In his ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

after dozens of supporters held candlelight vigils in both countries to protest capital punishment. Pannir Selvam Pranthaman was arrested in 2014 for having 52 grams (about 1.8 ounces) of heroin and ...

Julie Pace, the executive editor of the AP, said, “The decision by the White House to block an AP reporter from an open press conference with President Trump and Prime Minister Modi is a deeply ...

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.

A proposal passed by Florida’s Legislature will require the death penalty for “unauthorized aliens” who commit a capital felony ... t do cruel and unusual punishment,” Harper said.

Office of Public Affairs | Attorney General Sessions Issues Memo to U.S. Attorneys on the Use of Capital Punishment in Drug-Related Prosecutions | United States Department of Justice. 21 Mar. 2018 ...