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

A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner has been put to death in Florida, becoming the second person ...

An Arkansas death row inmate will have a hearing in August to determine if he can end his appeals against the advice of an ...

Two Republican lawmakers on Feb. 23 proposed Wisconsin reinstate the death penalty for those convicted of first-degree child ...

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has issued an order to carry out the sentence of death row inmate Charles Lee Burton.

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, ...

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.

Florida carried out its second execution on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. A group of 50 people held a vigil outside the Florida State ...

Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman, one of the state's most powerful Republicans, said he would "vigorously oppose" any legislation to repeal Ohio's death penalty, should Gov. Mike DeWine call for such a ...