"I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty," Brad ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

Legislation recently proposed by freshman U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-8, Dallas Twp., seeks to restore a sense of balance by ...

Former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter got it right almost 70 years ago: “A shocking crime puts law to its severest ...

South Carolina’s execution law says prisoners will be killed by electrocution unless they choose the firing squad or lethal injection.

A prayer vigil was held by South Carolinians for an Alternative to the Death Penalty in light of Brad Sigmon’s execution in ...

South Carolina plans to execute Brad Sigmon by firing squad, a method last used in America 15 years ago. Sigmon was convicted ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001. He chose the firing squad over the electric chair and lethal injection.

By Dannel Malloy As a former prosecutor, mayor, governor of Connecticut and a member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, I have spent much of my career in and around the ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved HB49 which proposes the death penalty for child rape and sodomy under 12.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced the introduction of capital punishment for religious conversions of girls ...