As Robinson faces a possible death sentence, voices on campus weigh in on Utah’s capital punishment system and its broader ...

As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest ...

Ohio Governor DeWine postpones executions of two inmates due to difficulties obtaining lethal injection drugs.

Only Missouri and Indiana allow judges to impose capital punishment when a jury can't decide whether to sentence a defendant ...

The Office of the Ohio Public Defender is finding itself at odds with the state attorney general and some Republican lawmakers as the former argues against adding nitrogen hypoxia as a legal means of ...

Recent executions have depleted the state's supply of pentobarbital, prompting discussions about alternative execution methods and the future of capital punishment in Indiana. A bill to abolish the ...

killed 13 people in a 1982 murder spree. Six of eight death sentences and convictions have been stricken down in Lackawanna County. Pennsylvania’s death row is home to 245 inmates. The state has ...

Gov. Mike Braun this week implied he was open to debate on whether Indiana should end the death penalty, after telling reporters the state had run out of the drug used in two recent executions. “We’ve ...

Three suspects were arrested after police found over $4,000 worth of stolen merchandise in Irvine. The suspects were ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man who was paid $1,000 to kill an Alabama woman more than 30 years ago was put to death with pure nitrogen gas, a first-of-its-kind execution that again placed the United States ...

Emotions ran high Saturday at the Arizona Death Penalty Forum, as people on both sides of the capital punishment debate shared and discussed their views on the topic. The forum, sponsored by a number ...

AUSTIN -- Ron Shamburger was executed before sundown Wednesday evening, strapped with leather belts to a gurney in Texas's cramped death chamber, shrouded with an ironed white sheet, attended by a ...