The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

Amnesty International condemned on Monday a surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in recent years, highlighting particular concern for capital punishment used in cases of drug-related offenses and the ...

Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, death penalty processes are not perfect. Mistakes will occur. Innocent people ...

Mmore than 100 faith leaders are calling on Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to pause all executions before the state breaks its record.

Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right. The death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the state and will inevitably claim innocent victims.

A new report by Amnesty International has revealed that Saudi Arabia has executed over hundred Pakistani nationals for ...

In 1898, the American colonial administration replaced Spain’s. The U.S. Naval government oversaw the island’s legal system and maintained capital punishment as the ultimate punishment.

Attorneys for Utah death row inmate Ralph Menzies filed a new petition asking the court to reconsider his competency due to ...

News about Capital Punishment, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Of course, capital punishment as an institution relies on judgment at every level: judgment about guilt, about fairness, about proportion, about pain and cruelty, about the possibility of redemption.

For the family of Jamie Rose Bolin, who was brutally murdered by neighbour Kevin Ray Underwood in 2006, the death penalty, carried out in December 2024, was "the only just punishment", said USA Today.

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life. By Robert D. McFadden ...