Capital punishment is the most harmful punishment available, so the state should only use it if no less harmful punishment is suitable; Other punishments will always enable the state to fulfil its ...

Punjab's government is consulting legal experts to draft a law for stricter punishment for sacrilege against religious ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

Capital punishment and maximum-security prisons do not fit into that paradigm for me. My hope is that we, along with the Pope, will find better ways to live up to our highest ideals as American ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

Both capital punishment and abortion are complicated things. Many Americans have strong feelings about each, but recognize circumstances in which their views might shift: Abortion opponents might ...

By 4–3, the court held that “capital punishment has become incompatible with contemporary standards of decency in Connecticut and, therefore, ...

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept; The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years, ...

If these people escaped the death penalty, you have to wonder: Who will suffer it? Here’s a reasonable guess: An ...

Not a single jury in Oklahoma has issued a new death sentence in the past three years, a sign that public opinion has changed ...