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Anti-death penalty advocates rally in Texas, highlighting cases like Robert Roberson's potential innocence and calling for abolition.

It’s rare for governors to step in to halt executions. In the case of Robert Roberson, it ended up being state lawmakers who took extraordinary steps.

The case of Richard Moore, facing execution in South Carolina, raises questions about the death penalty, jury diversity, and potential for redemption in th...

Though crime and criminal justice policy are central issues in many elections, that’s not true in 2024. Surveys show that relatively few American voters rank crime as their most important concern.

Idaho prosecutors challenge defense arguments in quadruple murder trial regarding death penalty imposition for Bryan Kohberger.

The ex-president has allegedly floated hangings and televised killings, and called for the deaths of drug dealers

Aroosa Khan's son was chatting on WhatsApp but suddenly found himself the target of "vigilante" investigators who accused him of having committed blasphemy online, a crime that carries the death penalty in Pakistan.

The Republican also pledged to ‘expedite the removals’ of migrants upon taking office, if re-elected on November 5.

An 88-year-old Japanese man who had fought to overturn a murder conviction for decades has finally been acquitted. Iwao Hakamata was arrested in 1966 and spent 46 years on death row. In a landmark retrial, a court declared him innocent in late September, and while rejecting the verdict, the prosecution…