Kamala Harris has suddenly gone silent on whether or not she supports capital punishment.

He has the evidence on his side, but the high court usually can’t be dissuaded from upholding a death penalty conviction.

A pair of death penalty decisions reaffirms a sad fact about the high court: There is a majority of justices who want to keep the executions coming.

The court’s conservatives have pared back the Sixth Amendment’s protections so that it won’t impede the state’s ability to erroneously execute the innocent.

The soon-to-retire justice lost his fight to abolish the death penalty. His courage keeps alive the possibility that some future court might yet win.

Gavin Newsom’s refusal to let Kennedy’s 77-year-old killer die at home after a half-century behind bars is nothing more than a cynical political stunt.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

The system failed to protect Montgomery as a child. It should be able to offer more now than merely a reprieve from execution.

A jury spared Calvin McMillan’s life, but a judge sentenced him to death anyway. Will the Roberts court save or condemn him?

Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the government will put five prisoners to death in six months, ending a 16-year hiatus.

The moral argument doesn't work. Opponents of capital punishment in New Hampshire succeeded with a different approach.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority will stop at nothing to preserve capital punishment in America.

In each episode of Netflix's "I Am A Killer," a man on death row describes his crime. But for what purpose?

Arkansas' recent, gruesome executions are further proof that we'll never find a humane way to put people to death.

A Sri Lankan housemaid is soon to be stoned to death, as the world turns a blind eye.