The killing of a National Guard member in Washington DC has revived attention on the use of capital punishment in the US.

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row died Wednesday of ...

Yes, we should end the death penalty. Too expensive, too arbitrary, cruel to the victims families, and should not part of a ...

Smithers' and Grim's executions would be Florida’s 14th and 15th death sentences carried out in 2025, further extending the ...

In 2024, there were 25 people executed in the United States. In 2025, there have already been 44 executions, and three more ...

The U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a coalition of over 50 organizations, has been launched to abolish capital ...

A new effort is underway to bring an end to the death penalty. A coalition of groups from around the country, including North ...

We will do everything in our power to seek the death penalty against that monster who should not have been in our country,” ...

A lawyer for Jimmie Duncan, 57, said that "fraudulent forensics" had played a role in the conviction that sent him to prison ...

The fight goes on over Erie's lone death row inmate and the use of dog DNA as evidence at his trial nearly 25 years ago. The inmate, Stephen Treiber, has appealed his conviction to the 3rd U.S.

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state ...

US prosecutors urged a judge to reject a request by Luigi Mangione’s lawyers to dismiss federal death-penalty charges over ...