death penalty

Two convicts filed appeals to halt their executions just hours before they were to be put to death. Jack Jones and Marcel Williams had been scheduled for execution by lethal injection in back-to-back sessions that would have happened tonight, Reuters reports. Jones was found guilty for raping and murdering a woman in 1995 and then […]

The trial of Dylann Roof, who murdered nine innocent church members in Charleston, South Carolina back in 2015, has officially come to an end. Sentencing in his trial was announced today and Roof, 22, was sentenced to the death penalty. Throughout the course of the trial Dylann Roof showed absolutely no remorse when detailing his […]

While Trump has praised him for his accomplishments on jobs, tax cuts, infrastructure, and school funding, he has been targeted by Black activists for his record on voting rights protections, education for students of color, and his position on the death penalty.

Out of the 33 federal charges against Roof, the accusation that he violated the prayer group's right to freely practice religion will weigh heavy when considering the death penalty.

Pope Francis tackled issues of racial and social injustice, and abolishment of the death penalty, among other things.

The proposal outlines strategies for reducing student debt and for cutting interest rates on student loans.

Louisiana man, Glenn Ford, spent nearly three decades behind bars on death row for a crime he did not commit before walking free earlier this week. “My sons — when I left — was babies,” the 64-year-old told reporters outside the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola upon his release on Tuesday. “Now they grown men with […]

The past week has been an emotional and challenging one, as people across the world have mobilized to get the word out regarding the pending execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis in the face of serious doubts about his guilt in a 1989 murder. As we speak, protesters are at the White House letting the […]