A district court judge has thrown out a challenge to the Kansas death penalty on procedural grounds, but said there are economic and psychological concerns about capital punishment in Kansas. Wyandotte County District Judge Bill…

TOPEKA — A long-shot constitutional challenge to Kansas’ death penalty unfolding in preliminary court proceedings for a man charged in the death of four people at a Wyandotte County bar centers on claims the state’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect…

On Jan. 14, 2021, I stood in a small chamber in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, while the federal government carried out an execution. Relegated to a spot 6 feet away from the…

TOPEKA — A coalition led by the American Civil Liberties Union has asked a state court to abolish the death penalty in Kansas, arguing it violates constitutional rights, is racially biased and fails to deter…

The case against the death penalty builds, and events this summer and fall have added rocket fuel to arguments to abolish it. This summer, two more men on death row were exonerated, bringing that total…

Imagine that well-meaning politicians created a government program that was supposed to help people.  Now, imagine that same program getting 30 years of tax dollars and helping precisely nobody.  Worse yet, imagine that the program’s…

Some of Kansas’ top prosecutors are pushing state lawmakers to approve a new method for carrying out the death penalty, saying the state is nearing what could be its first execution since the 1960s. The…

TOPEKA — The state’s highest court on Friday rejected a man convicted of capital murder’s appeal against the death penalty.  One justice said he would consider examining the constitutionality of the death penalty in future…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court…