Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that she tried — and failed — to use in Kohberger’s case.
A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches.
Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide protests.
Capital punishment remains one of society's most controversial topics of conversation.
If Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle, they would have been made right away when Biden took office.
Iran in 2024 executed at least 31 women, an NGO said on Monday, warning that female prisoners were increasingly being caught in a surge in the use of capital punishment in the Islamic .
Mangione was arrested on Dec.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual "Capital Punishment, 2022 – Statistical Tables.
In its history, the Granite State has executed 26 people.
Opponents of capital punishment should have been pleased by Joe Biden's commutation of 37 federal death sentences.