Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Florida, which has made the death penalty a priority, must be more transparent about how it's ...

In a small, piercingly bright room inside a state prison in northeast Florida, Frank Walls was strapped to a gurney and injected three times: first with a sedative meant to render him unconscious, ...

The death penalty is a power the government should invoke only when the evidence and law genuinely support it, ...

Oklahoma officials have locked in May 14, 2026, as the new execution date for Raymond Eugene Johnson, the Tulsa man convicted in 2009 of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter in 2007.

The UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Friday (Feb 27) called for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty ...

A criminal case in which the state seeks the death penalty isn't just another run-of-the-mill prosecution. In a country rooted in one's right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," a process ...