In addition, every Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 openly opposed capital punishment —including Kamala Harris. “I’ve long been opposed to the death penalty. It is deeply immoral ...

As the Democratic Party position evolved, so did the national conversation about capital punishment. From 2004 to 2021, that conversation changed considerably .

However, as his term winds down, Biden has little to show for the party’s promise to abolish capital punishment. On Monday, the Democrats approved their 2024 platform, which includes no mention ...

Since 1968, voters have been asked to determine the fate of capital punishment in their states 18 times — and the pro-death penalty side has won every single time.

Deacon Denny Davis, a leading voice against capital punishment in South Dakota, told NCR he was "not happy at all" about the lack of commitment to ending the death penalty in the 2024 Democratic ...

Vaillancourt Murphy noted that Louisiana’s use of the practice of capital punishment has “tapered off in the past decade.” “The last lethal injection in Louisiana took place in 2010 ...

It was wrong because democratic Athens inflicted capital punishment on a fellow citizen. Majority rules Of the countless arguments long rehearsed for and against the death penalty, one of the most ...

The series illustrated the full range of systemic flaws of capital punishment in America: the targeting of people of color, low-income people, people with ... ultimately, abolishing capital punishment ...

Washington state has carried out five executions since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center. All defendants were ...

Support for capital punishment has waned among the general public – and many Republicans. But as the party’s presidential candidates campaign on crime, the issue of executions is back.

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment outlawed in ...