During his announcement in late 2022 that he would be once again running for president of the United States, newly-reminted ...

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 ...

Public support and use of the death penalty in 2022 continued its more than two-decade long decline in the U.S. In 1982, Texas was the first in the world to execute an inmate by lethal injection ...

Shortly after being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an order to expand the death penalty, confirming a widespread expectation that the Department of Justice may seek capital punishment more ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

By Jordan Rubin The death penalty has long been a focus of Donald Trump’s “tough on crime” approach, which demands strict consequences for his non-supporters. It’s no surprise, then ...

still-living death penalty abolitionist, attorney Bryan Stevenson—founder of Alabama’s Equal Justice Initiative—a rally where Marshall’s going to announce he’s now a death penalty opponent.

and the death penalty is the most severe sentence that the state can impose," Cooper said Tuesday in an online announcement. Advertisement "After thorough review, reflection and prayer ...

PAEDOPHILES could be facing the death penalty as Trump backs new House GOP bill to get predators “off the streets.” The President-elect is reportedly fully supportive of the new set of ...

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