The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

PARIS – Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday.Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Pastor and theologian John Piper tackled one of Christianity s enduring debates how Scripture addresses witchcraft and ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

It’s Valentine’s Day and much is happening in Washington and the political world, some of it quite unsettling. But I’m taking a break from current ...

It’s no surprise, then, that capital punishment features in one of his ... Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro," a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs.

As the conversation meandered throughout the day, it occurred to me to get his thoughts on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ...