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 ...

Louisiana will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, forging ahead on plans set in motion last spring to carry out death sentences using nitrogen hypoxia.

Efforts to repeal the death penalty have been introduced in two Republican-led states, with some lawmakers citing their ...

The death penalty is a divisive issue in Ohio. Whether the death penalty will be abolished in Ohio, and what forms it may ...

A jury has found a man accused of setting a woman on fire in 2023 in Butler County guilty of all charges leveled against him.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

The jury was sent home for the weekend and will return on Monday to hear closing arguments before beginning deliberations.

A man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment is set to be executed Thursday evening in Alabama in ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in ...

Another sponsor across the aisle, Democrat Sen. Nickie Antonio, argued in support of the bill, stating, “Abolishing the death penalty is pragmatic,” and, “According to the Ohio Legislative Service ...