On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

Florida has already carried out nine executions in 2023, surpassing any other US state. Texas and South Carolina currently ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed orders to execute more inmates in one year than any other governor in state history.

Opponents of capital punishment on Friday called on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reverse Arkansas' decision to allow ...

Our state leads the nation in putting killers to death this year, but no one really believes death sentences are working.

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

Capital punishment violates one of the most fundamental principles under widely accepted human rights law—that states must recognize the right to life.

It is the quickest pace of capital punishment since March 2022, when 81 people were executed in a single day for ...