Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

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On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Vietnam has officially removed the death penalty for eight criminal offenses, including embezzlement, bribery, and the ...

The president said he would seek capital punishment sentences for "all crimes of a severity demanding its use”. Con: not a deterrent "Study after study shows that the death penalty does not ...

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Capital punishment has long been used in the U.S. as “the ultimate deterrent and only proper punishment for the vilest crimes. Our Founders knew well that only capital punishment can bring ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer with time. America's death penalty is dying one generation at a time - Los ...

Though there are more U.S. capital-punishment states today than at the low point of 1917, capital punishment is waning in practice in the U.S. as it is in Western Europe.

Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death penalty dismissed last year as she scrambled to repay billions of dollars, but ...

Capital punishment is the most harmful punishment available, so the state should only use it if no less harmful punishment is suitable; Other punishments will always enable the state to fulfil its ...