The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

Some governments that retain the death penalty, such as Kenya, claim that they can’t abolish it while there is considerable public support for capital punishment ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved a law that will end capital ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...

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Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two ...

President Biden pardoned the death sentences of 37 people on death row in federal prisons. These folks will remain in prison without chance of parole. He has been both praised and pilloried for his ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a top government official said Tuesday, saving the 60 prisoners currently on death ...