Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a top government official said Tuesday, saving the 60 prisoners currently on death ...

As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

President Biden’s sweeping use of the pardon power should remove any objections to the next administration’s expected ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a law that abolishes the death penalty in the southern African state ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two ...

A military appeals court has upheld a plea deal for the alleged orchestrators of the 9/11 attacks, allowing them to avoid the ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

The Death Penalty Abolition Act, published in Government Gazette on Tuesday, says courts can no longer deliver a sentence of ...

Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s leader since 2017, has publicly spoken of his opposition to capital punishment. He has cited his ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a ...