The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, ...

A Florida death-row inmate cleared of murder charges and the survivors of several New Hampshire homicide victims emotionally ...

Lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty law in 2019, but Gov. Kelly Ayotte says she'd like to bring it back. Meanwhile, ...

On Jan. 17, 2006, California carried out what would turn out to be the last execution in the Golden State in the next two ...

President Duma Boko on Friday allayed citizens’ fears that the establishment of the Constitutional Court will be a guise to ...

Opponents of the death penalty turned out in big numbers in Concord again Thursday to speak against legislation to bring ...

The protest movement in Iran has subsided after a crackdown that has killed thousands under an internet blackout, monitors ...

A judge will decide Thursday whether the death penalty will be taken off the table for the man accused of killing a Hamilton ...

Autopsy reveals difficulty with IV insertions during executions in Arizona, raising concerns about medical practices for ...

Tanner Horner's lawyers filed 28 new motions on Tuesday in the 297th District Court in Tarrant County, ahead of his trial for ...

The protest movement in Iran has subsided after a crackdown that has killed thousands under an internet blackout, monitors ...

It’s my understanding that the original rationale for incarceration for a crime was to make the stay so unpleasant as to make ...