Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Florida, which has made the death penalty a priority, must be more transparent about how it's ...
UN rights chief Volker Turk urges immediate moratorium on Iran’s death penalty after first protest-linked execution and ...
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.
Raymond Eugene Johnson is set for execution May 14 for the 2007 murders of his ex-girlfriend and her infant daughter in Tulsa.
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 ...
The Alabama Supreme Court has issued an order to carry out the sentence of death row inmate Charles Lee Burton.
Florida will execute Billy Kearse on March 3 for killing Fort Pierce Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991. WPTV has full coverage ...
Attorneys for Melvin Trotter had long argued he was intellectually disabled, but he was put to death by lethal injection for ...
GOP lawmakers circulated a memo to reinstate the death penalty for certain child sex crimes, setting DNA and appeal rules.