This chart shows the share of U.S. respondents in favor/not in favor of the death penalty for murder (in percent).

But that’s fitting: The death penalty is now almost exclusively the province of America’s red states. Sign up for How To Read This Chart, a weekly data newsletter from Philip Bump.

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband​ could bring about a form of punishment long ...

An annual report on capital punishment says more Americans now believe the death penalty is administered unfairly. The report says a Gallup poll from October that found 50% of Americans believe ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.] As far ...

A judge ruled Bryan Kohberger, who is autistic, according to his lawyers, could still be put to death if he is convicted of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022.

The Trump administration's pursuit of the death penalty for Mangione marks a new development in the shifting politics of capital punishment in the United States, which has seesawed for more than ...

In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The numbers indicate the need for a more deliberate and transparent process to ...