The Latest Breaking News from Death Penalty

GOP convention votes on wide-ranging platform including striking law protecting abortion providers from being charged with murder

"Equal protection for the preborn" is a "call for abortion to be treated as homicide," says Jessica Valenti

Japanese prosecutors again sought the death penalty in the retrial on Wednesday of an ex-boxer who was the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.

Assange’s legal team say they have accepted an assurance that US prosecutors would not seek the death penalty

Bad Bunny’s representation firm sued the baseball players’ association Thursday, disputing a ban it says amounts to a ‘death penalty’ for its business

Pursuit of ‘non-stop executions’ causing psychological distress to corrections staff as states urged to widen gap between executions

There are topics which generate much debate and sometimes emotional commentary. One is abortion, which has been that kind of topic in Frankfort in recent years. There’s another which has not been formally debated but often carries a strong reaction as well.The death penalty is legal in Kentucky and has…

Alameda county district attorney’s office said it unearthed records suggesting prosecutors deliberately excluded Jewish and Black jurors from capital trials

Alabama Supreme Court authorizes execution of Keith Edmund Gavin for 1998 murder case, sparking debates on death penalty fairness and legal procedures.