The Death penalty is a controversial topic with which many people disagree.
Advocates say it's valuable as a deterrent or as simple justice, and cheaper than lifetime prison terms.
University of Richmond law professor said the public is gradually learning that lethal injection is not a humane form of death.
The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of 64-year-old Keith Edmund Gavin, who in 1998 killed a delivery driver withdrawing cash from an ATM.
Indiana’s death penalty law exists in name only.
Williams was convicted of paying mother-of-the-year Kristen Siple $2,500 to rape and sodomize her daughter.
District Attorney Jeff Rosen is free to disagree with courts’ decisions but his responsibilities are defined by the law.
An anti-death penalty organization released a scathing report regarding the pattern of botched lethal injection executions in the United States.
(RNS) — I have worked with the condemned in the South since 1975.
A jury has begun to hear evidence in the capital murder case in which a mother and her 10-year-old daughter were slain in east Fort Worth.
Indiana’s death penalty law exists in name only.