Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed orders to execute more inmates in one year than any other governor in state history.

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

Two men could get death sentences if convicted of murder over the fatal shooting of a government witness. The trial has been pushed back to 2027.

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

Williams killed her daughter "in a cold, calculated, and premediated manner without any pretense of moral or legal ...

Without capital punishment, there exists diminishing marginal returns in terms of yearly sentencing to imprisonment. There is no distinction in the deterrence effect of sentencing someone from 20 ...

The novena began Aug. 6 and concludes Aug. 14, the memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Catholic priest executed in Auschwitz ...

Capital punishment abolitionists opposed the change. They had hoped that Pennsylvanians would eventually call for an end to state executions—if only we could see what was really happening.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

Capital Punishment in History Capital punishment dates to ancient times — it is mentioned in one of the oldest existing set of laws, the Code of Hammurabi, dating from around 1750 B.C.

Furthermore, my examination of morality shows that capital punishment is not only a just institution, but that in many cases, the state is morally required to obey the will of an individual.