In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

The panel, established in February at the initiative of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, also said abolishing the ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...

The jury of seven women and five men told Judge James Arguelles that they were split on whether Adel Sambrano Ramos should be ...

An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petition is calling on President Biden “to commute all federal death sentences” ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Supreme Court of Texas is weighing whether death row inmate Robert Roberson — whose capital punishment ...

Kohberger currently faces the death penalty if convicted; his trial in Boise is set for August 2025. BOISE, Idaho — In less ...

The execution marks the sixth known public execution since the Taliban’s return to power, reigniting international outrage over the group’s use of capital punishment and corporal punishment, which ...

Attorneys for the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students say the death penalty is arbitrary and ...

The court ruled that the brutal killings, which stemmed from a property dispute, met the “rarest of rare” standard required for capital punishment ...

In contrast, Biden has a mixed record on capital punishment. Unlike his predecessor, he has not carried out any federal ...