[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...
Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right. The death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the state and will inevitably claim innocent victims.
Sociological evidence on the deterrent effect of the death penalty as currently practiced is ambiguous, conflicting, and far from probative. Avery Cardinal Dulles, Catholicism and Capital ...
Texas leads U.S. states in executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Currently 27 states, the federal government, and the U.S. military use the death penalty. Three states ...
"There were multiple points in the timeline when decisions could have been made that would have spared him the death penalty. If there is even the shadow of a doubt of innocence, the death penalty ...
Bryan Kohberger should face the death penalty if convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students, prosecutors have told a judge. Only 26 people have been executed in Idaho since the state ...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students asked a judge to ...
Under Scalia’s framework, if the death penalty can constitutionally be applied to murderers (and he believes it can) then it can also be applied to shoplifters. If a rapist can be sentenced to ...
Early in this year’s session, Senate President Craig Blair had floated potential legislation to reinstate the death penalty for certain drug offenders. Separately, Senator Mike Stuart had ...
Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them ...
The latest death penalty news from The Texas Tribune. By Kayla Guo Oct. 29, 2024 The AG also said he’d make a criminal referral against the lawmaker, who apologized for texting a Court of ...