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 efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Explore the inspiring true story behind 'Just Mercy,' where attorney Bryan Stevenson battles for the truth and justice for ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in ...

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 ...