According to the latest Afrobarometer survey , 82% of Botswanans believe capital punishment is justified, while only 16% ...

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Rights activists in Singapore and Malaysia will hold candlelight vigils to protest capital punishment as Singaporean authorities prepare to execute a Malaysian man for drug trafficking despite mountin ...

Attorneys for Giovannie Clapp, a suspect in the killing of Mahogany Jackson, filed a motion requesting a unanimous jury ...

Florida officials aren't wasting time implementing their new legislation, which increases penalties for crimes committed by ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Pam Bondi was sworn in as attorney general in the Oval Office. Bondi is moving quickly to reverse Biden administration ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. His return for execution ...

Sermons made his ruling in the case of Hasson Bacote, who, as NBC News notes, was convicted of murder “along with two others ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...