Even as most of the world has turned its back on capital punishment, some countries continue to enforce it — and 2024 proved to be a particularly deadly year. According to Amnesty International, ...

MP calls for ‘legally binding referendum’ as new poll shows more Britons support bringing back capital punishment than oppose ...

Although nearly three-quarters of the world's countries no longer put people to death, the penalty's use in 2024 reached record levels in states that still practice it.

This is all bad news for people seeking to end capital punishment in the United States. However, I don’t think that it suggests we are seeing a revival of the death penalty after a long period of ...

The death penalty may be prohibitively expensive when it comes to prisoners. But that doesn't mean we should eliminate the death penalty entirely. California still needs a death penalty for local ...

(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum seeking to reinstate the death penalty in Washington, DC, as Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Justice Department ...

Nationally, the number of people put to death remains far below the peak in the nineties. The long decline since then, ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.