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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The couple's son, Nick, reportedly had an explosive row with his parents at Conan O'Brien's holiday party hours before, and ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

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 ...