One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

North Carolina is still feeling the adverse impact of the mandatory death penalty prosecution law, despite its repeal. | ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

On Friday, Jan. 31, the state of South Carolina executed Marion Bowman by lethal injection for the 2001 shooting death of ...

Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in ...

A new bill filed in the Kentucky legislature would create a fund to compensate people who are wrongly convicted and then exonerated.