A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

Undocumented immigrants convicted of first-degree murder or raping children would face mandatory death sentences, under bills ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

“I understand the pleas and concerns. Michigan is not a death penalty state.” Michigan became the first state in the US to outlaw the death penalty in 1847. Frazier confessed to murder after ...