At the memorial service for her husband Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk's words oppose the death penalty and are, instead, a call for forgiveness.

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state ...

GOP state Rep. Bill Sutton was joined by two Republicans and three Democrats to end capital punishment in the state. It’s ...

This is all bad news for people seeking to end capital punishment in the United States. However, I don’t think that it ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Hampshire, along with the ACLU Capital Punishment Project and leading death ...

Prosecutors said Friday that Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson should ...

President Donald Trump said at an Aug. 26 Cabinet meeting that capital punishment will be sought for all murders in Washington, D.C. Trump's comments came amid his federalization of the police force ...

HOUSTON (AP) — More Americans now believe the death penalty, which is undergoing a yearslong decline of use and support, is being administered unfairly, a finding that is adding to its growing ...

In March, Virginia abolished capital punishment, startling many Americans. But for close observers, the news wasn’t a huge surprise. “The United States has undergone a sea change in its views toward ...

It is possible — some say, likely — that Virginia will soon abolish the death penalty, making it the 23rd state, and the first Southern one, to do so. Historically, Virginia has put more persons to ...

Virginia’s state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty, putting the southern state on the path to become the 23rd state to end capital punishment. The Commonwealth has ...

Rastogi says the grounds for commuting a death penalty to life imprisonment includes a jail conduct report, a psychological ...