Luigi Mangione, 26, accused in the slaying of CEO Brian Thompson, is up for the death penalty if he's convicted on federal charges. Here's why.

Taking a different view, Edward Feser, a Catholic philosopher who coauthored a 2017 book defending the use of the death penalty, told CNA that while not the main focus of its argument, he believes ...

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The numbers indicate the need for a more deliberate and transparent process to ...

Those states have the death penalty on the books but no longer execute anyone — and there are lots of them. Some are red states like Kansas and Ohio; some, like California, are deep blue.

Today on Louisiana Considered, in light of the state’s first execution in over a decade, we speak with anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean about her fight against capital punishment ...