Florida is moving forward with the execution of Mark Gerald on Dec. 5, 2025, despite major concerns about missing evidence, ...

The McKean County District Attorney's Office will seek the death penalty against a man accused of raping and killing his ...

NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union released Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Race and Wrongful Convictions today, a new report exposing how racism, human error, and systemic failures have made ...

After years of steady decline in the number of people executed in the U.S., there has been a sharp reversal. If all the scheduled executions are carried out, that would make 2025 the year with the ...

Update 9:10 p.m. 11/13/25: Officials with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections confirm Tremane Wood had a medical event caused by dehydration and stress that caused him to become unresponsive in his ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday spared the life of a death row inmate just hours before his scheduled execution. “After a thorough review of the facts and prayerful consideration, I have chosen ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

The death-row inmate, Tremane Wood, 46, had already had his last meal. It was only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has stepped in to stop an execution. By Michael Levenson Gov. Kevin Stitt of ...

Japan faces steep challenges in abolishing the death penalty despite repeated calls from human rights groups, legal experts and the Catholic Church, as public support for capital punishment remains ...

JERUSALEM, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The Israeli parliament has advanced a bill that would mandate the death penalty for Palestinian militants convicted of killing Israeli citizens, with some lawmakers ...

Tennessee’s Catholic bishops issued a plea for mercy, calling for an immediate halt to the death penalty and its eventual abolition as the state prepares to execute Harold Wayne Nichols on Dec. 1.

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