Tag: death penalty

Less than 72 hours after 17 people were gunned down at a Florida high school, attorneys for the man who pulled the trigger let...

Late Friday, attorneys for the man responsible for one of the worst school shootings in recent history dropped a bombshell--their client is willing to...

We all remember Neil Gorsuch. He's the newly appointed Supreme Court Justice that filled the seat stolen from former President Barack Obama's nominee Merrick...

On Saturday morning, a federal judge brought Arkansas' plans for a marathon of eight executions in 11 days to a screeching halt. Judge Kristine...

Arkansas state is planning rushed executions this month and for the worst reason. The state has a batch of the drug midazolam, a sedative that...

A measure of sanity has finally prevailed in the case of Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof. After almost two years of stonewalling, prosecutors in South...

The death penalty has always been a source of great debate in America, and that debate is about get more intense. According to CNN,...

Dylann Roof, noted white supremacist and murderer of nine Black churchgoers last summer, was condemned to death today by a federal jury, according to the New...

According to the Pew Research Center, nationwide support for the death penalty is at a 40-year low. Twenty years ago, 71 percent of Democrats and...

An organization in Florida called Abolish Abortion believes that women should be given the death penalty for having abortions. They are a Christian-run political group, which...

If New Mexico’s Republican governor, Susana Martinez, gets her way, the state will buck national trends against executions and reinstate the death penalty, instead. In...

In the face of growing opposition to the death penalty both inside and outside this country, states have increasingly found it tougher to find...

The very barest spark of a good idea exists in the Republican right wing’s call for small government. At its sanest, the insistence on...

Attorneys for Dylann Roof, the confessed gunman in the Charleston church shooting, announced yesterday that their client was willing to plead guilty to state...

In October 1983, 35-year-old Lester Bower fatally shot four people with a .22 pistol in an airplane hanger in Sherman, Texas. That conclusion was...

Nebraska shocked the nation earlier this week when it became the first "Red State" in over a decade to repeal the death penalty. Lawmakers...

During a 2000 Presidential debate with former Vice-President Al Gore, George W. Bush is quoted as saying, "I think the reason to support the death...

George Junius Stenny Jr. was born October 21, 1929 and was Americas first child to be executed in the electric chair on June 16,...

This morning's edition of The Boston Globe led with a gut-wrenching letter from the parents of one of the victims of the Boston Marathon...

The second jury in charge of sentencing for Jodi Arias has come back unable to make a unanimous decision. This means the jury is...