In Oregon in the 1960s, the debate over capital punishment hinged on shifting interpretations of the gendered female body.

In early nineteenth-century England, forging currency was considered to be such a subversive threat that it was punished with the death penalty.

A look at the American public's ambivalent opinion of the death penalty.

The defense in the trail of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing is using Clarence Darrow's strategy in the Leopold and Loeb trial of 1924.

The sociologists Michael Radlet and Marian Borg test out six arguments for and against capital punishment.

Social psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt has won a MacArthur fellowship for her research in criminal justice reform.