While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year ...

For the first time in the U.S., the Boise Art Museum is displaying the full work of artist Julie Green’s indictment of the ...

Roberson, who has faced execution multiple times but maintained his innocence, has been on death row since his 2003 capital ...

So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

Florida has executed more prisoners on death row in a single year than any other state in the US - Governor Ron DeSantis ...

On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-five people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...

The U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a coalition of over 50 organizations, has been launched to abolish capital ...

Robert Roberson's death-row case could take a new turn as a New Jersey court released a ruling on shaken baby syndrome.

A federal judge says she plans to rule quickly on a Georgia man's assertion that his execution next week should be halted. An attorney for Stacey Humphreys argued Wednesday in U.S. District Court ...