The death penalty remains on the books in North Carolina, and there are more than a hundred people currently on death row in the state, but legal challenges have resulted in a de-facto moratorium for ...

Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

Utah’s Supreme Court has analyzed the legal theory that prosecutors are using to seek capital punishment for the alleged ...

The U.S. has seen 34 executions so far in 2025, with eight more scheduled for later this year, including seven this month ...

Lance Shockley is a Missouri prisoner on death row. Unless Gov. Mike Kehoe stays his pending execution, Shockley will be put to death in less than a week.

The law provides that if the state’s current method, lethal injection, is found to be unconstitutional or is unable to be administered, the N.C. Department of Adult Correction “must select another ...

The grave of Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in France in 1981, was vandalised on Thursday, ...