Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the ...

UNDER THE PROPOSAL, LIFE IN PRISON WOULD BE THE ALTERNATIVE PENALTY. DIAMOND SAYS IN ADDITION TO HIS MORAL OBJECTIONS, THE DEATH PENALTY CAN BE COSTLY BECAUSE OF LENGTHY APPEAL PROCESSES THAT CAN ...

In this article, we’ll be taking a look at some powerful quotes from individuals who are against the death penalty — including activists, abolitionists, political leaders, and the families of ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld a law that gives more power over death penalty cases to the attorney general's office. Except for in a few types of legal proceedings, death penalty cases will ...

University officials say storms — from Hurricane Rita in 2005 to Hurricane Harvey in 2017 — have battered the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in the nearly 50 years since it was built in the ...

Activists in India are decrying remarks from the leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in which the politician threatened to prescribe the death penalty for religious ...

His defense recently filed a motion “to Strike Death Penalty RE: Autism Spectrum Disorder,” summaries of court documents show. A “Motion to Redact or Seal Newly Filed Records” was also ...

Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison last week, she knew it would put a strain on her relationship with Attorney General Steve Marshall. Known as Grim ...

Leaders in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, home to 72 million people, are considering punishing with the death penalty those who allegedly force people into religious conversion — a ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

The Supreme Court said in a 5-3 ruling that a defendant in a rare death penalty appeal will get a new trial because the prosecution violated its obligations. Richard Glossip’s appeal was unusual ...