Florida and Tennessee passed similar bills in the last two years and at least six other state legislatures have introduced ...

However, North Carolina did not have a state penitentiary and, many said, no suitable alternative to capital punishment.[10] The first reforms of the death penalty occurred between 1776-1800.

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty “swing states”—states that have the death penalty on the books but ...

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 ...