International efforts to eradicate the death penalty came into sharp focus at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, where UN human rights chief Volker Türk decried a substantial increase in global ...

New laws in Florida mandate stiffer criminal penalties for immigrants in the U.S. illegally than for everyone else ...

The death penalty has long been a controversial and divisive issue, with passionate advocates on both sides of the debate.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that condemned Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip be given a new trial.

Louisiana inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for ...

Louisiana will be using the controversial nitrogen gas method for its execution, marking the end of a 15-year hiatus on capital punishment in the state. Arizona will resume executions after ...

Doug Ford took his tough-on-crime talk to new heights in a campaign speech where he pushed for a return to capital punishment, the Star has learned. Musing about stiffer penalties for home ...

Stephen Harper, the founder of Florida International University’s Florida Center for Capital Representation ... is you can’t do cruel and unusual punishment,” Harper said.

Now, 37 years later, the state of Utah is still trying to determine if he should be executed. I'm not a capital punishment advocate, but every time I hear his name my blood boils. He murdered a young ...

Readers likely enjoyed a chuckle at the goofy word salad in “Notable & Quotable: ‘Oral Health Justice’” (Jan. 25). But that concept is real. Consider one case: For years inmates in Texas ...

the third execution carried out by the state since reinstating capital punishment. Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is set to be put to death for the 2001 murder case of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.