Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...

Some view the death penalty as a “merciful” source of closure to the victim’s family and friends. But after a brief period of ...

Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the decision banning ...

Idaho lawmakers advanced a bill to make a firing squad the state’s primary method of execution, as the trial of accused University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger approaches. Idaho Department of ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

State Rep. Matt Simpson, a Daphne Republican, is sponsoring the bill, which lets the state opt for death or life in prison ...

A proposal moving through Florida’s Legislature would require the death penalty for “unauthorized aliens” who commit a ...

TALLAHASSEE — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Florida Death Row inmate James Ford, setting the ...