death penalty

Connecticut death penalty opponents want lawmakers to bar corporations in the state from making drugs or devices used in executions.

A New York-based non-profit hosted a webinar with legal experts from Connecticut to discuss how ending the death penalty shaped justice reform in the state.

Another MS-13 gang member could face the death penalty for the murder of two teenage girls on Long Island.Federal prosecutors announced this summer they…

The federal government will seek the death penalty for the alleged MS-13 gang member who is accused of killing two Brentwood, Long Island, teenagers in…

In her first book, “Dead Man Walking,” Sister Helen Prejean shares the story of her work as a spiritual advisor to a death row inmate and how that…

The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld its landmark ruling declaring the state's death penalty unconstitutional and abolishing capital punishment.The…

The Connecticut Supreme Court has rejected a former death row inmate's appeal of one of his murder convictions.Justices ruled 7-0 Monday that a lower…

Months after ruling to abolish capital punishment completely in Connecticut, the state's Supreme Court gave state attorneys another chance Thursday to…

Connecticut’s Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, saying it goes against that state’s constitution, in a…