Home; Crime; pros and cons Pros and cons of the death penalty. There's been a 'clear trend' away from capital punishment in recent decades, but the US 'remains an outlier' ...

The move, one official said, would help the country extradite suspects from abroad. It would also spare the life of a ...

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has announced the decision to seek the death penalty for Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and Franklin Pena, both Venezuelan nationals, charged with the abduction ...

TOKYO -- Former Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia, who led Mongolia's abolition of the death penalty during his presidency, has called for open de ...

The death penalty is not a deterrent. “The scientific community has found no reliable evidence of the death penalty being a deterrent to homicides.” The death penalty is costly. “More than $4 million ...

Death penalty debate intensifies as Tennessee set to resume executions with new drug Tennessee plans to resume capital punishment this year under vague new protocol for lethal injection.