Anti-death penalty advocates held a rally over the weekend in Texas calling for capital punishment to be abolished, as several high-profile death row cases in Texas and other states have sparked ...

Two petitions opposing the death penalty and the use of nitrogen gas were handed over to Gov. Jeff Landry Monday. Together, they had around 35,000 signatures. Jessie Hoffman Jr. scheduled to be ...

Kansas District Court Judge Bill Klapper is no one’s idea of a liberal anti-death penalty activist, having been originally appointed to fill a vacancy on the bench by Gov. Sam Brownback (R ...

She was introduced to anti-death penalty organizers around the country, and in time, what had been a volunteer position with the anti-capital punishment group became a paid position. This content ...

A Pepperdine University academic has nominated North Little Rock anti-capital-punishment activist ... some attention to his work and to the death penalty abolitionist movement.” ...

Anti-death penalty advocates are lodging a final push to spare Hoffman from being put to death, via nitrogen gas, for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of Molly Elliott in rural St. Tammany.

He was the first person in the state to be killed with nitrogen gas. While many anti-death penalty organizations spoke up against this, there’s one Louisianan who’s been leading the charge ...

Anti-death-penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward ...

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. In an executive order ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The death penalty is a logical necessity. Imagine a killer, convicted and serving a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. One day, he kills a prison guard ...

Beyond his call for a death penalty moratorium in 2000, Ryan also focused on the prevention of drunk driving and pushed Illinois to lower the blood alcohol level to 0.08 percent. Ryan also created ...