Some suggest 2015 could be the year Pennsylvania begins a serious conversation about whether to keep the death penalty or abolish it. For that reason, PennLive dug into this issue to help our readers ...

The death penalty remains on the books in North Carolina, and there are more than a hundred people currently on death row in the state, but legal challenges have resulted in a de-facto moratorium for ...

Bossidy, the veteran chairman of Honeywell, was struck that among the shelves of business books published each year on strategy and leadership, none focused on the subject that obsesses successful ...

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SAN QUENTIN — A condemned murderer who was one of just 16 inmates on California’s Death Row to have exhausted his appeals died of unknown causes, prison officials have announced . Fernando Belmontes, ...

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 inmates on federal death row, the White House said Monday. The move reduces the sentence for all but three of the 40 inmates on federal death row.

Utah is poised to bring back death by firing squad. Republican state Rep. Paul Ray introduced the legislation in December, calling firing squads “the most humane” method out of all options. The ...

EL PASO, Texas — There are seven El Paso inmates currently sitting on death row in Texas. This comes as Facundo Chavez got sentenced to death on Wednesday after being found guilty of the shooting ...

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