IN England around 1800, more than 200 offenses, including forgery, poaching, cutting down somebody else’s tree and associating with gypsies, were punishable by death. Women and children were hanged ...
About 2000 men, women, and teenagers currently wait on America's "death row." Their time grows shorter as federal and state courts increasingly ratify death penalty laws, allowing executions to ...
An antiabortion demonstrator holds a sign reading “Love Them Both” outside the Supreme Court on May 11 in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg News) Analysis by Philip Bump Both capital punishment ...
Among the dozens of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day was one calling for a dramatic expansion of the use of the death penalty. The order utilizes falsehoods about ...