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

The death of capital punishment in the United States is not only desirable but also paradoxical. Attempts to make this practice constitutional have enveloped it with ever-more-refined procedural ...

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 ...

A team of defense attorneys on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to restrict Washington County District Attorney Jason ...

Virginia’s decision to abolish capital punishment is a move that experts and death penalty abolition advocates is emblematic not only of the nationwide decline of capital punishment, but also a ...

In the book of the year about the death penalty, author Evan Mandery chronicles the ugly political process at the Supreme Court that spawned the nation's roiling capital punishment laws.

Capital Punishment Bringing Back Federal Death Penalty Will Hit LGBTQ and People of Color the Hardest | Opinion Published Jul 31, 2019 at 12:08 PM EDT Updated Aug 01, 2019 at 9:37 AM EDT ...

America made big strides in 2019 on its path to dismantle the racist, unfair, and inhumane death penalty. Today, dramatically fewer states permit the death penalty than any time in the modern era, and ...

Though the modern Kansas death penalty statute was enacted in 1994, the state’s capital punishment system is the legacy of more than 150 years of racial violence against non-white Kansans, especially ...

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