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 ...

Under Biden, officials decided not to seek capital punishment against two D.C. teens charged in a deadly carjacking. The ...

The increase in executions is largely being driven by four states — Florida, Texas, Alabama and South Carolina — that have ...

Execution Blocked - A court blocks the execution of Robert Roberson.  It comes as the Death Row inmate is receiving renewed support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers in his calls for a new trial.

Community members came together to protest the death penalty as the conversation ramps up over its legality in North Carolina ...

Rio Tinto is preparing to make a final call on the future of the Tomago aluminium smelter and its more than a thousand ...

With these carried out, Indiana has five inmates remaining on death row. Who are these individuals, and what were their crimes? William Gibson is on death row for the murders of Karen Hodella, ...

Roy Ward’s execution in Illinois was the 35th in the U.S. in 2025, with Florida leading the way with 13 executions this year.

The U.S. Department of Justice has rescheduled the execution of Lisa Montgomery, a convicted murderer and the only woman on federal death row, to take place on Jan. 12, a few days before Joe Biden is ...

This was an utter embarrassment that marks the end of any pretense that we still adhere to the mythical “Virginia Way” in our civic discourse.

The two lead lawyers for Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, asked a U.S. judge on Thursday to delay Montgomery's execution next month because they have contracted COVID-19 after ...