The nation's declining rate of executions has leveled off, but opponents of capital punishment say the death penalty remains on borrowed time. The 2017 total could approach 30 before the yea... Read more
We celebrate today the 15th World Day against the Death Penalty. As of today, 105 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. In the past 25 years, 60 countries have abolished... Read more
The European Union is leading an international effort to end global trade in torture devices and lethal drugs used in capital punishment - an initiative that could spell curtains for the dea... Read more
Opponents of a voter-approved measure: The high court’s decision unconstitutionally delegated power to the judicial branch and failed to consider whether the measure could survive after the... Read more
Florida has executed a 53-year-old man convicted of killing two men in 1987 by lethal injection. The execution, performed on Thursday evening, involved the use of a powerful chemical never b... Read more
When is the death penalty right to use? We’ve asked ourselves this on the editorial board many times and never agree. When is a crime so egregious that a person, a community or a state can j... Read more
On May 13, Jimmy Dennis was released after more than 25 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. There was no physical evidence tying him to the crime. No gun was ever recovered and Jim... Read more
In a major break in a decades-long struggle, Pennsylvania Common Court of Appeals Judge Leon Tucker ordered the release of a trove of documents relating to the longtime political prisoner Mu... Read more
