Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

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 seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

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 Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

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

Governor Jeff Landry announced a state of emergency was declared and that Louisiana will start doing execution by nitrogen ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

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

David Duncan, a meticulous retired judge, led an inquest into Arizona's execution protocols -- until it was subverted by ...