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 ...

Last year, Georgia executed Willie James Pye, whose IQ was low enough to indicate that he was intellectually disabled, according to his lawyers. That rattled Glennville Republican state Rep. Bill ...

A current and former solicitor – who have both prosecuted death penalty cases – say deciding whether to pursue capital ...

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

The Justice Department is aggressively pursuing the death penalty against an alleged “Zizian” member accused of murdering a Border Patrol agent in Vermont.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he’s joining a push to overturn a nearly two-decade-old Supreme Court ruling.

We have no choice." The Supreme Court ruled in 1972 in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment's provision barring cruel and unusual punishment. Additionally, the D.C.

The U.S. government executed convicted murderer Christopher Vialva on Thursday, the first Black man to suffer the federal death penalty since the punishment was resumed this summer after a 17-year ...