[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 ...

El Paso officials estimated prosecutors spent $1.9 million over five years to prepare a death penalty trial against Patrick Crusius, who killed 23 people in a 2019 shooting at a West Texas Wal-Mart.

Arizona has more than 100 people on death row. Upon taking office in early 2023, Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes halted executions while an outside reviewer Hobbs hired assessed ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed seven death warrants in 2024, the most by a Florida governor since 1984 and 2014. Critics suggest DeSantis' increased use of the death penalty is tied to his ...

Iran's foreign minister said America's airstrikes on nuclear targets were "outrageous" and will have "everlasting ...

Iran's foreign minister calls America's airstrikes on nuclear targets "outrageous" and will have "everlasting consequences." ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death ...

Death penalty cases are increasingly rare in the Bay Area, especially after Gov. Gavin Newsom implemented a moratorium on executions in 2019 and moved to dismantle San Quentin prison’s death row.

People on death row who are not covered by the agreement have since become eligible for execution. One of them, Willie James Pye, was put to death in March 2024. Streaming Now. On ...

The agreement only applied to people on death row whose requests to have their appeals reheard were denied by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while the judicial emergency was in place.