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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

An incarcerated Texas man claiming to be the father of the late University of Utah football player Ty-Coreous (Ty) Jordan has ...

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

A status conference has been scheduled for East Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson after he was granted an execution stay ...