Lawmakers renew efforts to strip Delaware death penalty from constitution. Here's why
For the second consecutive year, a bill seeking to remove the death penalty from Delaware’s constitution is up for debate in ...
Editorial: There is a bipartisan bill to abolish Pa.'s death penalty. It must be passed
In one of his first major policy proclamations as governor in February 2023, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced not only that he was ...
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Lawmakers renew efforts to strip Delaware death penalty from constitution. Here's why
Supporters of the bill argue that the death penalty is not an effective deterrent to crime and is disproportionately applied to Black people. Opponents of the bill believe the death penalty is a ...
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Religion is baked into Louisiana's death penalty practices, but executions divide faith leaders
Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still, she says the two cannot coexist.
After a rare execution by firing squad, a fresh call to abolish the death penalty | Editorial
Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the ...
Iowa Senate bill would add death penalty for murder of law enforcement officer
The bill, Senate File 320, that advanced out of a Senate subcommittee Wednesday would establish the death penalty for ...
Trump’s death penalty push faces resistance in some red states
Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.
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Republican Pennsylvania Legislator Introduces Bill to Abolish Death Penalty
The debate over the death penalty has intensified in Pennsylvania, with House Bill 888 now seeking to eliminate capital ...
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Bryan Kohberger's defense claims he has autism in bid to avoid firing squad
Kohberger, by and through his attorneys of record… hereby moves this Court to strike the death penalty as a sentencing ... negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment ...
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Pharmacists seek life imprisonment for drug peddlers
Pharmacists in the country have called for stiffer punishment for peddlers of illicit medicines amid rising concerns about the impact of counterfeit and fake drugs on public health.