Anthony Boyd was the 40th person executed in 2025 with another two months left in the year. It is the largest number of ...

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

Thirty-four men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, and eight others are scheduled to be put ...

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

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

Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution ...

Earlier this month, Palm Beach County prosecutors announced that they would be seeking the death penalty against two men ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum seeking to reinstate the death penalty in Washington, DC, ...

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

Of the past 10 people who have faced execution in Missouri, at least six had children. For kids of people on death row, there ...

Marcelle Waldon, who killed a former Lakland commissioner and her husband in their Lake Morton home in 2020, will be ...