North Carolina’s “Iryna’s Law,” signed by Governor Josh Stein, enforces stricter criminal procedures and sets the stage for ...

Twenty-seven former Ohio lawmakers have joined the movement to abolish the death penalty in the state, citing concerns over ...

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

A recent child sex abuse case in South Florida is one of the first in the country to see a possible death sentence, raising ...

An inmate convicted of murdering a man over a $200 drug debt by burning him alive was executed by nitrogen gas in the ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Christa Gail Pike, 49, will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years if her execution proceeds next September.

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not ...