Death row exonerees Alfred Rivera, Ed Chapman and Henry McCollum meet at an event sponsored by the N.C. Coalition for ...

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 ...

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

Williams killed her daughter "in a cold, calculated, and premediated manner without any pretense of moral or legal ...

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

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

Furthermore, my examination of morality shows that capital punishment is not only a just institution, but that in many cases, the state is morally required to obey the will of an individual.

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