Florida is gearing up to break its execution record in July 2025, with plans for nine executions, marking the highest number ...

Time and again, mass murderers plead for life without parole to avoid execution. Without the threat of the death penalty, ...

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

How Democrats have been more consistently ‘pro-life’ than Republicans The term has generally been used in the abortion debate. Apply it to the death penalty, too, and patterns shift.

There are far fewer death sentences and executions than there used to be. It now happens almost exclusively in Republican-voting states.

A History of the Death Penalty from Laura E. Randa's Society's "Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Racism taints every stage of death penalty proceedings in California, as the state Supreme Court should acknowledge. It's present in other criminal sentences as well.

A judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors could seek the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger if he is found guilty of the 2022 slaying of four University of Idaho students. Judge Steven Hippler ...

When 29-year-old Christopher Edward Debord of Germantown was convicted of robbing and killing a man, the judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Twenty-four executions have been carried out in 2023 — five more than last year, the Death Penalty Information Center says. Meanwhile, 50% of Americans say the death penalty is applied unfairly.