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A Sept. 18 meeting with Department of Justice officials could be key toward determining what route the federal prosecution of Payton Gendron takes.

During the sentencing stage, prosecutors and the defense are given more leeway to discuss Bowers’ wider life, much of which would have been ruled inadmissible earlier.

Secrecy and restrictive state practices continued to impair an accurate assessment of the use of the death penalty in several countries, including China, North Korea and Vietnam, the organization said.

Singapore hanged a prisoner on Wednesday after he was convicted of a drug offence, the Asian city-state's 12th execution since last year. It is one of several dozen countries that continue to execute prisoners, including the United States, China, Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia

Since 1991, American support for the death penalty has steadily declined. According to Statista, in 1991, approximately 76% of Americans supported the death penalty. Alternatively, in a 2021 survey, only 54% of Americans reported supporting the death penalty. What does this decline in numbers indicate regarding the changes within American society and the overall political climate? After 16 years of being paused, the Trump administration, to the surprise of many, reinstated the federal death penalty, as reported by Business Insider in a 2019 article. In United States v. Tsarnaev[i], the First C...