A bill that would allow executions by firing squad if lethal injection drugs are unavailable or at an inmate’s request is ...

The death penalty remains a deeply contested issue, provoking the fundamental question: Should the law possess the authority to take a life in the name of justice? This debate lies at the intersection ...

Morris, who is openly opposed to the death penalty, says the legislation is intended to make a point: if lawmakers are ...

In Ohio, executions have stood still for nearly seven years, due in part to what Gov. Mike DeWine says is pharmaceutical companies’ opposition to use of their products in the drug concoction that ...

Hey! The Question of the Week has grown so much in popularity that we've been picked up by all our other USA-Today network newspapers in Florida! I knew asking about the death penalty would elicit ...

Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was ...

What about Nuremberg and Eichmann?” In the shadow of the Shoah, many death penalty debates in Jewish circles eventually ...

The Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's 2023 capital sentencing law, rejecting constitutional challenges in two death ...

I note the continued letters regarding the death penalty debate. For many years, I was ambivalent, weighing the urge for retributive justice vs. the rare but horrifying thought of executing an ...

The current debate in the Israeli Knesset regarding the proposed death penalty bill for convicted terrorists is one of the ...

Experts from the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide addressed the death penalty as an ethically controversial issue and predicted that it will gradually fall out of use going forward. On ...