On July 2, 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided Gregg v. Georgia, ruling that capital punishment does not violate ...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — On the anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling reinstating the US death penalty, faith leaders, those ...
Australia issued a formal protest to Indonesia Friday after photos emerged of a smiling senior police officer posing with the two men due to face the firing squad, as it was confirmed that the ...
Next week, the state of Texas is likely to carry out its second execution in three weeks. Edward Busby Jr. has been on death row for 21 years, having been found guilty of abducting and killing a TCU ...
DANBURY - As Kenneth Lee Boyd sat on death row in North Carolina on Wednesday night, hundreds of bells in churches throughout Connecticut were scheduled to ring out their opposition to the death ...
Activist group United for Palestine will hold a protest outside the Israeli embassy in Nicosia on Wednesday against recent legislation passed in Israel introducing the death penalty for Palestinians ...