Channel News Asia reported in mid-2025 that the Chinese government had confirmed the execution of the Chinese celebrity Zhang ...

A group of lawyers who defend people facing capital punishment has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take extraordinary ...

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Two men accused of homicide in Pennsylvania are asking the state Supreme Court to limit a prosecutor's use of the death ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has prefiled house bill 20, which calls for an expansion of possible capital punishment ...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...

Amnesty noted that 37 people were executed for drug-related crimes in June alone, including 34 foreigners from countries such ...

The numbers: Capital punishment in the United States is on life support, hanging on in the 2 percent of counties that administer more than half of all executions.

The death of capital punishment in the United States is not only desirable but also paradoxical. Attempts to make this practice constitutional have enveloped it with ever-more-refined procedural ...

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 ...