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

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

Texas' execution numbers remain far lower than recent state highs, even as executions nationally climbed, driven almost ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...