Capital punishment also hasn’t proven to be much of any deterrent. And it runs the risk, however small, of taking an innocent ...

I’ve made the case for how Biden has previously misused his clemency power. Sadly, we’ve seen similar abuses of power ...

Our readers from across the county give their weekly take on the biggest issues impacting Kent and beyond. Some letters refer ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 individuals on death row to life without parole after ...

The United Nations has welcomed Zimbabwe's abolition of the death penalty - and called on other countries to do likewise.

President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In ...

In its history, the Granite State has executed 26 people. In 2019, New Hampshire ended capital punishment. Was that the right ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago.

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...