Ohio’s stalled death penalty exposes the false promise of finality and the irreversible danger of wrongful executions, making ...

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 ...

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

Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

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 ...

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat ...

Charles Ray Crawford is scheduled for execution in October 2025 for the 1993 kidnapping and murder of a Mississippi college student. Lawyers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, ...

As executions remain paused, Ohio lawmakers debate competing bills that would either repeal the death penalty or expand how ...

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