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Gov. Josh Shapiro Thursday boldly called on legislators to abolish Pennsylvania’s costly, ineffective and immoral death penalty. In urging legislators to act, an unprecedented move, Shapiro showed some sorely needed leadership from the governor’s office.

Lawyers for a man convicted of killing eight people along a Manhattan bike path five years ago say prosecutors are unfairly using emotional testimony from victims' families to try to win a death penalty ruling from a jury

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson insisted that millions of voters share his desire for capital punishment to be brought back. He was appointed by Rishi Sunak last week

The outspoken MP for Ashfield was given the post of deputy Conservative chairman.

But critics decry death penalty ‘experimentation’ that state is developing after a series of botched lethal injections

Now that the white supremacist gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life without parole in state prison, attention is turning toward his federal hate crime charges and the potential for the death penalty

PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Josh Shapiro called on the General Assembly to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania.

The Ashfield MP told the Lib Dems if they sent him a stack of their new poster pointing some of his quotes on the death penalty, food banks and poverty he'd distribute them himself. So they did. Here's what happened

On Jan. 17, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which already carried the death penalty for insulting the prophet Muhammad. Now anyone in Pakistan deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, can face life imprisonment.