According to a study conducted by Duke University researchers, death penalty prosecutions cost the state roughly $11 million per year. This means North Carolina has likely spent about $200 million ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low.

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

What cost will there be to 52 years in jail, and how many hip replacements could be performed on normal people instead? The death penalty would help to reduce crimes of this nature and save ...

But cost is not included. In a new statement ... That came ahead of a small Monday afternoon rally at the Statehouse centered ...

1, 2024. [Via VOA] Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest of the country's record cost-of-living crisis.