[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 ...

More than half of Canadians still support capital punishment for murder cases—will that ever translate into policy?

When the French parliament overwhelmingly outlawed the death penalty in 1981, he put his hand on the plaque commemorating ...

In addition to the federal government and US military, 27 US states still have the death penalty on the books. A Gallup poll conducted in October found that a slim majority of Americans - 53% ...

The death penalty has existed across the United States since colonial times, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a national nonprofit organization that collects data on capital ...

"This is being done for optics," she said. "Even conservatives know that having the death penalty on the books is very expensive, and that it is not a deterrent. This money should be put towards ...

Iran executed as many as 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of the use of the death penalty, human rights groups claimed on Thursday. The data "reveals a horrifying escalation ...