The death penalty may be enacted by state legislatures, but county prosecutors impose it. Prosecutorial discretion is an unseen but elementary force that guides the criminal-justice system.

Death qualification disproportionately excludes Black prospective jurors. Black Americans, as a group, are more likely to oppose the death penalty due to the racist roots of the capital punishment ...

The death penalty is a racist, cruel policy that leads to the most vulnerable Americans being executed. We need to abolish it.

An Alabama death row inmate who is scheduled to be executed using nitrogen gas later this year is challenging the controversial method in an ongoing lawsuit. In an interview with "CBS Evening News ...

The death penalty is wrong even when it is not imposed, because prosecutors use the mere possibility of execution to pressure defendants into pleading guilty and accepting life sentences — even ...

Gregg v. Georgia 428 U.S. 153 (1976) — [The] Court upheld Georgia’s newly passed death penalty and said that the death penalty was not always cruel and unusual punishment. Tison v.

The death penalty debate, which has raged through much of our nation’s history, has returned with new urgency. On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at ...

But death penalty advocates collected more than 143,000 signatures in response, enough to bring Referendum 426 to a vote. If voters retain the measure, it would replace the state’s use of the ...

Many are using the reintroduction of the death penalty for personal political gains under the notion "that it can make America a safer and more just place", said Sarat in The Guardian.

Brown’s action marked the most expansive instance of death penalty clemency since Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the sentences of all of his state’s 167 death row inmates in 2003. Arkansas ...

Florida will have the lowest death penalty threshold in the nation. It will join Alabama (10-2) as the only other state that doesn’t require a unanimous jury.

California’s death penalty has cost $300M in 5 years without executions. Learn how Newsom can help dismantle this broken system with life sentences.