States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...

To be eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, the defendant must be at least 18 at the time of the crime and convicted of ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with mental illnesses from being executed. Nine inmates have been removed from ...

An Alabama death row inmate used his final words to maintain his innocence before being suffocated to death with nitrogen gas ...

Two men convicted of killing six people in Deltona in 2004 in one of Central Florida’s most notorious mass killings known as ...

All the research that has been conducted on the death penalty by unbiased and sophisticated researchers tells us quite ...

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 ...

Death row inmates in Japanese jails are kept in solitary confinement and forced to wait for years, and sometimes decades, ...

Tremane Wood's fate is in the hands of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt who decides whether or not to commute his death sentence ...

Ohio has not carried out an execution since 2018, creating a de facto moratorium under Gov. Mike DeWine. State lawmakers are at an impasse over whether to abolish capital punishment or authorize new ...

The application of Ohio's death penalty varies significantly by county, influenced by the views of elected prosecutors. Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties have historically sent the most people to death ...

Pakistan's Supreme Court commuted on Wednesday death sentences for two mentally ill people and sent them to health facilities ...