Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

Killing someone by lethal injection is considered to be a cruel punishment by some. The Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that researches the death penalty but doesn’t ...

Lawrence Russell Brewer was the last death row inmate in Texas that was allowed to choose what his final meal was before his ...

“It’s time for Ohio to stop spending millions of dollars to prop up this broken system,” Ohioans to Stop Executions Executive Director Kevin Werner argued. “Repealing the death penalty is not just ...

At every Florida execution — including Jeffrey Hutchinson’s execution set for Thursday — church-goers and members of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty gather to seek an end to the ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three ...

(AP) — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed ... law allows death sentences to be carried out using lethal injection, nitrogen gas, electrocution or firing squad.

A federal judge says Idaho prison officials must allow media witnesses at executions to watch as the lethal injection drugs ...

A man, who was convicted and sentenced to death for raping and killing a minor in Mugalivakkam in 2017, has been acquitted by a court in Chengalpattu on Tuesday in a case relating to the murder of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate ...