Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

including the U.S. bishops, have occasionally made reference to the “deterrence” argument for the death penalty in recent decades. In a 1980 statement on the death penalty, the U.S ...

Sermons made his ruling in the case of Hasson Bacote, who, as NBC News notes, was convicted of murder “along with two others ...

The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

State of Death Penalty in U.S. The executions of Ford and Tabler are the fourth and fifth to be conducted in the United States this year. Tabler is also the second person to be executed in Texas.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

What's False However, immigrants residing illegally in the U.S. can't be given the death penalty simply for being here. They must have committed a crime in one of the two above-mentioned ...

The death penalty has existed across the United States since colonial times, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a national nonprofit organization that collects data on capital ...