This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on the increase.

Loran Cole, 57, was set to be executed in Florida on Thursday for the 1994 murder of 18-year-old Florida State University freshman John Edwards and the sexual assault of his 21-year-old sister. Cole ...

This is all bad news for people seeking to end capital punishment in the United States. However, I don’t think that it ...

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday. Gov. Kevin Sitt commuted his death sentence to life ...

Last week, in a federal courtroom in New York City, a jury found Sayfullo Saipov guilty of intentionally driving a truck down a crowded lower Manhattan bike path, killing eight people and injuring ...

Rainey Bethea, a Black man, was publicly executed in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1936. Bethea was found guilty by an all-white, all-male jury in four and a half minutes. The author discovered her family's ...

We have written several editorials about the racist Buffalo massacre when a gunman with a Bushmaster XM-15 .223 caliber semi-automatic rifle murdered 10 Black people at a Tops supermarket on May 14, ...

Thousands marched in Kohima demanding justice for Vihozhonu Zao, urging capital punishment for the accused and stronger ...