The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

The ACLU of Ohio is calling for a repeal of the state's current death penalty laws, but some conservative state lawmakers ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione returned to a New York City courtroom on Friday for a brief appearance in ...

Arizona lawmakers consider reinstating the firing squad as a death penalty method because of issues with lethal injections.

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

But the attorney general’s display of unbridled enthusiasm for capital punishment on day one of her tenure — and her inattention to the death penalty’s serious problems — should give all ...

Mangione stands charged in Manhattan Supreme Court and Manhattan Federal Court in the Dec. 4, 2024 killing of health care ...

If political candidates campaign—and win—on the death penalty issue, they have an incentive to turn death sentences into executions. And soon after he took office in January 2024, Landry took ...

A recent report revealed that the Supreme Court in 2024 commuted five death sentences to life imprisonment. Is the apex court’s approach signalling a shift in India’s approach to capital punishment?