Roy Cooper’s commutations should signal the death penalty’s end in North Carolina | Opinion
Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
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Countries that still have the death penalty
The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.
New Orleans attack: Search continues for potential Bourbon Street accomplices as state AG vows death penalty
The FBI is searching for potential accomplices to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed by police in a shootout after ramming ...
Death penalty creates more sorrow, pain for most everyone involved
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...
Families who lost loved ones to violence find relief, doubt in California’s death penalty
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty two decades after last execution
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...
Biden’s death penalty commutations are extraordinary — and insufficient
The criminal justice system should not be in the life-taking business.
What happened in 11 Oklahoma County death penalty cases under new DA
Eleven death penalty cases were pending in Oklahoma County District Court when the new district attorney took office. Where ...
Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty almost 20 years after its last hanging
Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago.
Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously pursue the death penalty’
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty ...
Trump vows to direct DOJ to pursue death penalty in wake of Biden clemencies
President-elect Trump vowed Tuesday to direct his Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue the death penalty in the wake of ...