In 2026, more than half of the United States still allows the death penalty as a sentence for those committing the most ...

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

Eight death row inmates in Idaho will soon face a barrage of fatal bullets – after the state adopted the firing squad as its ...

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than ...

A few weeks before publicly calling for Ohio to abolish the death penalty, Gov. Mike DeWine quietly commuted a death sentence ...

Up to six bullets will be aimed directly at the heart ...

In November 2022, Taylor Parker was sentenced to death for murdering Reagan Simmons-Hancock and kidnapping her unborn child.

Florida executed its oldest death row inmate Thursday, carrying out the state’s ninth execution of 2026 as religious leaders ...

A 74-year-old Florida death row inmate convicted of murdering his wife in 1992 was executed after decades of appeals, becoming the oldest person executed in the state's modern history.

To protect their mental health and avoid lifelong trauma, Florida's corrections workers should refuse to carry out any more ...

We want a jury to tell Alameda County ‘Don’t ever do this again,’ ” the plaintiff’s lawyer said. “Because I have absolutely ...

The Kansas death chamber is a small room with one-way windows so witnesses and the executioner can see in but the inmate can't see out.