[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?

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 ...

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% ...