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Thirty-five years ago, the American Bar Association was one of the first organizations to call for abolition of the death penalty for those under the

Four U.S. Senators introduced a bill this week that would allow federal prosecutors in death penalty cases to impanel a second jury for sentencing if

Texas executed John Battaglia last week, the third person executed this year, and the second of the week. The 62-year-old was sentenced to die in

Two years ago, we reported on the use of “ethnic adjustment” by prosecutors in death penalty cases, which artificially raises minority defendants’ IQ scores. In

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation released its revised lethal drug protocol late last month, and it doesn’t address the problems that plagued its