Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

More than 70% of counties around the world have banned the death penalty, including the European Union. And yet in the U.S., ...

With one prisoner executed this week and another set to be executed this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis will achieve the dubious ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state ...

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

The US has carried out 25 executions this year, with 60% concentrated in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina, while new death ...

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On Tuesday, the state of Florida is set to execute Michael Bernard Bell for the 1993 murders of two people outside the ...

The nation set a 10-year high for capital punishment when Florida executed inmate Michael Bernard Bell by lethal injection at ...

An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...

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