Two executions on May 14 were the first in a series of five scheduled across the country over eight days.

Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection Thursday, reinforcing Texas’ position as the nation's leader in capital ...

Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State. But Ohio’s thoughtful and respected chief executive has yet to say what he ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A bill set to be signed into law by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey allows prosecutors to go for the death penalty in cases of first-degree child sexual abuse, something the ...

A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin’s death row on March 25, 2024. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general ...

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For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

New Hampshire lawmakers are taking up a range of bills this month that would reinstate the use of the death penalty in the state, almost seven years after it was repealed. The proposals this year, all ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – The moral divide over the death penalty played out in Florida this week in a remarkably personal and unusual display, as the state executed its first prisoner of 2026. Florida executed ...