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Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years.

WARNING: ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING. As lawmakers in South Carolina contemplate using the electric chair for executions, one doctor has shared chilling details of what happens to the body

Lawmakers introduced a bill they described as an effort at "kickstarting the state's stalled capital-punishment system."

Death penalty abolitionist Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action protests near the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex in Indiana on July 15, 2020. By Julia Conley / Common Dreams As the United States insists on continuing state-sanctioned killings despite a European ban on drugs commonly used in capital punishment, the United Nations Human Rights Office warned Tuesday that Alabama officials may soon violate international laws banning torture as they plan to use nitrogen gas in an upcoming

"Capital prosecutions have not and will not deter acts of terror, acts of mental illness and acts of hatred," Robert Dunham, director of the Death Penalty Policy Project at Phillips

Jerry E. Smith published what he called "the Fifth Circuit panel opinion that should have been issued" after the court upheld Jedidiah Murphys execution stay.

The Dispatch spoke with members of Columbus’ Jewish as well as Palestinian and Muslim communities about their reactions to the latest conflict.

Families of victims say the conclusion of a two-month trial may finally bring room for healing nearly five years after 11 worshippers were killed inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018.

Florida's moves regarding the death penalty come when other states and the federal government are taking steps to restrict or eliminate capital punishment.

  Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood: On December the 20th, 1996, Juli Busken was abducted from her apartment complex, driven out to Lake Stanley Draper and