Greg Abbott. Her execution is set for April 27. Melissa Lucio was convicted of capital murder in 2008 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Advocates say the case was mismanaged and that ...

Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using ...

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years ...

While the last judicial execution in West Bengal for the rape and murder of a minor in Kolkata took place over two decades ...

A Number 10 spokesperson said the government did not want the 18-year-old to ever be released but international law prevented teenagers from receiving whole life orders.

Amit Segal is correct that seeing hostages returned from the Hamas terror tunnels “fills the heart with joy” (“This Israel-Hamas Deal Sets a Dangerous Precedent ...

Idaho House Bill 37 aims to make the firing squad the state's primary means of execution as prosecutors prepare to try Bryan Kohberger in four college murders.

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature could soon make first-degree rape and sodomy of a child under 12 punishable by death.