Justice or mercy? Utah's death penalty debate over its history, future
Utah’s relationship with the death penalty reflects both historical ties and a growing shift in public sentiment. While some, ...
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Biden Must Use Final Months in Office to Commute Federal Death Sentences
In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...
Do Americans support the death penalty? New poll finds a historic generational shift
Nationwide support for the death penalty has fallen to its lowest level in decades due to shifting attitudes among younger ...
Trump expected to end Biden-era death penalty pause, expand to more federal inmates
President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...
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Could people facing the death penalty lose the right to tell juries their life stories?
The Marshall Project reports on the evolving perception and status of the right for death penalty defendants to present ...
Mistrial in death penalty case for killer of Sacramento cop Tara O’Sullivan after jury deadlocks
A mistrial was declared after a Sacramento jury on Friday deadlocked in its decision of the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who killed Sacramento police Officer Tara O’Sullivan in a 2019 ambush that ...
Jury says it’s split over death penalty for Sacramento cop’s killer. What happens next?
The jury of seven women and five men told Judge James Arguelles that they were split on whether Adel Sambrano Ramos should be ...
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Iran executes two Afghan citizens amid surge in Capital Punishments
The Iranian human rights organization Hengaw has reported the execution of two Afghan citizens, including a woman, by the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a published report, the organization stated that ...
Support for death penalty falls to lowest level in decades: Gallup
The last time support hovered around 50 percent was in 1972, the year the Supreme Court banned the death penalty. The court ...
Bryan Kohberger's defense argues against death penalty, calls death row "dehumanizing"
Kohberger currently faces the death penalty if convicted; his trial in Boise is set for August 2025. BOISE, Idaho — In less ...
What does Donald Trump’s return mean for the death penalty?
Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...
Bryan Kohberger's fight against death penalty gets day in court; expert skeptical of defense's arguments
The defense planned to call two expert witnesses at the hearing — forensic pathologist Dr. Barbara Wolf and University of Idaho law professor Aliza Cover, whose research has examined capital ...