Iowans and their elected officials are doing nothing to protect both prison employees and inmates from death. So please ...

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 ...

Some view the death penalty as a “merciful” source of closure to the victim’s family and friends. But after a brief period of ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Florida governor is advancing his anti-immigrant crusade with a measure that experts consider unconstitutional ...

Brian Stevenson aptly said that the reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

DeSantis has called for casting a broader net. Earlier this month, DeSantis announced a new agreement between U.S.

Younger generations’ exposure to America’s death penalty has come at a time when, as Gallup noted, “many states had moratoriums on the death penalty or repealed laws that allowed capital punishment … ...

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That may seem a sizable number, but as law professors Carol and Jordan Steiker note, “The modern era of American capital punishment … saw a stunning drop in the use of capital clemency ...