The Catechism, per the 2018 revision, states that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the ...

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...

The killing of a National Guard member in Washington DC has revived attention on the use of capital punishment in the US. Attorney General Pam Bondi said authorities will seek the death penalty for ...

The new initiative points to an increase in the use of the death penalty over the past year as public support for it has ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year ...

Catholics and pro-life conservatives formed a coalition of more than 50 organizations seeking to end the death penalty.

Conservative justices asked whether the Supreme Court needs to sharpen its guidance on how courts assess intellectual ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

Ohio is one of a handful of states that have paused executions, but nationwide executions are at a 15-year high, thanks ...

Hey! The Question of the Week has grown so much in popularity that we've been picked up by all our other USA-Today network newspapers in Florida! I knew asking about the death penalty would ...