The African Court ruling on Tanzania’s mandatory death penalty ruled that sentencing someone to death by hanging violates ...

WARREN — Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins is urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s ability to carry ...

Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro was asked for her reaction to two letters Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins sent urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s ability to carry ...

Japanese public support for the death penalty has exceeded 80% for the fifth consecutive time in a poll conducted by the ...

The share of people in Japan who believe that the death penalty system should be abolished stood at 16.5%, a Cabinet Office ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

A bill has been filed at the Indiana Statehouse that would abolish the death penalty on the state level. Many religious ...

The ACLU of Ohio is calling for a repeal of the state's current death penalty laws, but some conservative state lawmakers ...

Notwithstanding growing international criticism, an overwhelming majority of Batswana support the continued use of the death ...

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has for the second time in less that a year directed Tanzania to abolish the ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...