For a long time, when Americans thought about the death penalty, they thought of Texas. Every year for the last several decades, the Lone Star State led the nation in new death sentences and ...

But Singapore remains an outlier.From Vietnam to Malaysia and Indonesia, Southeast Asian governments are narrowing the use of ...

While capital punishment is rarely used in the U.S., other countries continue to carry out the method of final judgment. While typically reserved for the most extreme cases, some of these execution ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

In a highly controversial move, some Israeli MPs are trying to introduce the death penalty for Palestinian attackers.

For those of us who have argued for years against the death penalty, 2025 was a sign that Southeast Asia is heading in the right direction. In June, the Vietnamese government reduced the number of ...

Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty and federal habeas review of state criminal convictions and sentences. At ...

A file photo shows protesters calling for an end to the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. On Dec. 3, 2025, a coalition of more than 50 organizations from across the country ...

Alabama approved legislation to add rape and sexual torture of a child under 12 to the list of capital crimes.