The death penalty is a divisive issue and most people feel strongly about it. Capital punishment is (more…)
The jury for the Boston Marathon bombing case has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of the 30 counts, 1 (more…)
The process has begun for the selection of a jury for the Boston bombing trial. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ha (more…)
The execution of Dennis McGuire dominated the headlines as it swept across the country in January of (more…)
If the state has already stripped a person of his legal right to live, taking away their legal right (more…)
If the California bill is passed, offenders who were juveniles when they committed the crimes for wh (more…)
A novel strategy using civil rights laws to get a death sentence overturned could change the face of (more…)
Utah recently enforced its death penalty statutes by executing convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner b (more…)
This leaves us with a good idea of where the death penalty in the U.S. currently stands: only mental (more…)
The slight increase in executions in 2009 over the 2008 numbers could be due to the fact that in 200 (more…)