The American Civil Liberties Union joins law firms to argue that capital trial juries in Kansas are racially discriminatory.

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

News coverage of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson's stalled lethal injection raises questions about Texas executing the ...

South Carolina law allows up to three media members to witness an execution who then share what they saw and heard inside the ...

South Carolina’s death penalty law is unevenly applied. Some horrific killers get life sentences, while those who commit ...

Idaho’s (capital punishment) scheme fails utterly to define those who should be death eligible,” said Jay Logsdon, public ...

The Texas AG's Office notified the Supreme Court about Rep. Jeff Leach's attempt to influence a judge in a death penalty case ...

Capital punishment should be given to all the accused," he stated ... hunger strike after a two-hour-long meeting with Chief ...

Cassandra Stubbs, director of the ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project, speaks with reporters after a hearing on the death penalty in Wyandotte County District Court. The ACLU is challenging the death ...

Friday night in North Charleston, the ‘South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty’ group held a vigil for ...

Several officials released statements after the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore. South Carolina State ...