Capital punishment has been rarer in recent years, but 2025 has brought a complete reversal. This year has seen the most ...
My original column focused on the evidence: the lack of deterrence, the high probability of wrongful convictions in times of ...
Loran Cole, 57, was set to be executed in Florida on Thursday for the 1994 murder of 18-year-old Florida State University freshman John Edwards and the sexual assault of his 21-year-old sister. Cole ...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his administration will seek the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington, DC, a move that could collide with longstanding city law and ...
Last week, in a federal courtroom in New York City, a jury found Sayfullo Saipov guilty of intentionally driving a truck down a crowded lower Manhattan bike path, killing eight people and injuring ...
Rainey Bethea, a Black man, was publicly executed in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1936. Bethea was found guilty by an all-white, all-male jury in four and a half minutes. The author discovered her family's ...
Thousands marched in Kohima demanding justice for Vihozhonu Zao, urging capital punishment for the accused and stronger ...
We have written several editorials about the racist Buffalo massacre when a gunman with a Bushmaster XM-15 .223 caliber semi-automatic rifle murdered 10 Black people at a Tops supermarket on May 14, ...
Prosecutors said Friday that Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson should ...