Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, convicted of murdering Pastor Clint Dobson during a church robbery in Arlington, Texas, was executed ...

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

The church where the murder occurred supports the execution, citing biblical justification for capital punishment. Anti-death penalty activists, including a priest who counsels death row inmates, are ...

Arizona death row inmate Aaron Gunches has asked to be executed next month. This comes as Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney ...

Advises the attorney general to pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use, with special attention to crimes involving the murder of law enforcement or capital crimes ...

Amid the raging debate over a Kolkata court sentencing R G Kar hospital rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death, legal luminaries are unequivocal in their stand against awarding ...