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 ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

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

Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.

On Friday, Jan. 31, the state of South Carolina executed Marion Bowman by lethal injection for the 2001 shooting death of ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Bruce “Firing” Skaug, R-Nampa, may succeed in getting more people executed in the Gem ...

A new bill filed in the Kentucky legislature would create a fund to compensate people who are wrongly convicted and then ...

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...