Dr. Bruce Levy's finding that Alex Maze died of shaken baby syndrome was critical in the murder conviction of his father, ...

Last year, Robert Roberson came within hours of dying before a legislative subpoena forestalled his execution date. This year ...

Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort ...

Gov. Mike DeWine plans to announce his personal stance on capital punishment next month. Why it matters: For a governor who ...

Texas judges scheduled the fewest executions in at least three decades in 2025, but the state continues to spend millions of ...

Ahead of his execution, Humphreys, 52, requested a gluttonous spread chock full of southern classics with a dash of fast-food for his final meal — which went viral online.

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences were imposed. That number had fallen to 26 by 2024. Alabama’s yearly death ...

Texas also saw counties set the fewest new execution dates in at least three decades, according to an annual report by the ...

This year, 48 people are expected to be executed in the U.S. Meanwhile, fewer new death sentences are being issued, and ...

Frank Walls, convicted of the 1987 murders of Edward Alger and Ann Peterson, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday, Dec.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a ...

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.