The US has carried out its first execution by firing squad in 15 years, as states continue to grapple with finding humane methods to enact the death penalty. Convicted double murderer Brad Sigmon ...

When the French parliament overwhelmingly outlawed the death penalty in 1981, he put his hand on the plaque commemorating ...

Sociological evidence on the deterrent effect of the death penalty as currently practiced is ambiguous, conflicting, and far from probative. Avery Cardinal Dulles, Catholicism and Capital ...

Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot be put right. The death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the state and will inevitably claim innocent victims.

While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae ...

There needs to be a mechanism that allows talks with the offenders. Once that is created, the pros and cons of the death penalty should be discussed.” ...

The Rev. Stacy Rector, executive director for Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said there's a lack of transparency over how the state is securing lethal injection drugs. “ ...