Washington state’s parole board this week will hear the case of one of the so-called “Hillside Stranglers” who murdered ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment, according to Death Penalty Information Center: Georgia, along with ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 4, 2025 / 08:00 am Outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina commuted the death sentences of 15 people this week but still denied the majority of ...

Oklahoma’s death row is dwindling with each execution. No court in the state has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a Tulsa County judge followed a jury’s recommendation and ...

Biden is facing growing pressure to commute the sentences of the more than three dozen inmates sitting on federal death row before Trump enters the White House.

Washington — Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey was executed on Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, officials confirmed.

The death penalty cost analyses, from Washington state in 2015 and Oregon in 2016, included more than a decade of data in efforts to calculate the true impact to coffers for each state’s capital ...

In 2014 I issued a moratorium. In 2018 the state Supreme Court deemed the death penalty unconstitutional. Now in 2023, passage of SB 5087 strikes it entirely from our statutes." ...

The death penalty was abolished in Washington state Thursday after Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law eliminating the state-sanctioned punishment.

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5087 into law Thursday and repealed a number of state laws, including the state's invalid death penalty statute declared unconstitutional by the ...