The Germanic Languages and Literature department chair sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about how history enables ...

After closing arguments on Tuesday, a new jury will mull capital punishment for Adel Ramos, who shot police rookie Tara ...

Eight other states abolished capital punishment at one time or another but later restored it. Missouri, for example, abolished the death penalty in 1917, reinstated it in 1919 after hoodlums ...

Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman ...

Adel Ramos, who admitted to the bloody ambush killing of Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan in 2019, was sentenced to ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman wants us to believe that his decision to resume seeking the death penalty ...

Kenyan Margaret Nduta is set to face a death penalty in Vietnam over smuggling prohibited substances. The country is known ...

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban put in ...

The will for his own death has led to his characterization as a “volunteer.” But his ultimate demise could be put another way ...

One recently unsealed document, for example, revealed Kohberger’s ... negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment, and exposes him to the unacceptable risk that he ...

For example, no murder weapon was found ... and over again and pointing out government inefficiencies related to capital punishment. But that has not always been the case. However, a new crop ...