In 1994, 80% of Americans favored the death penalty. A similar poll this month showed that only 53% of respondents favor the death penalty for murder. But if a murderer killed any of my loved ones, I ...
Observer readers comment on Donald Trump’s transgender policy, Joe Biden’s commutations of death row inmates, UNC women’s soccer and A.I. | Letters to the Editor ...
The year 2024 was also a year of deliberations and decisions – with the most high-profile cases occurring in U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo’s eighth-floor courtroom in t ...
David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row, exempting those convicted of terrorism and ...
Jason Villalba praises Jeff Leach for putting principle over politics in both the Paxton impeachment hearings and the Robert ...
The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...
In a deeply controversial decision, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the death sentence of Marvin Gabrion, a man ...
Alabama conducted more executions in 2024 than any other U.S. state, a fact Attorney General Steve Marshall celebrated in a ...
The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...
As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...
Donald Trump spent Christmas wishing ill to his enemies and wondering why President Joe Biden wouldn’t want to execute inmates ...