capital punishment

Commentary The death penalty in the United States is on the verge of being snuffed out. The commonwealth of Virginia, which has executed more convicts than any other state in ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions, and lawmakers must choose a different method ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—The Trump administration was moving ahead early Tuesday with the execution of the first federal prison ...

A judge has blocked the first federal execution in 17 years over concerns regarding the CCP virus from ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration's plan to resume executions of federal death row ...

A Dallas man was executed Thursday evening for a shooting in which he killed his wife, two children ...

A Saudi Arabia court sentenced five people to death on Dec. 23 for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday to deny a request by the Trump administration to restart federal ...

A filing to the Supreme Court in support of the Trump administration's move to restart federal executions was ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas—A Texas death row inmate who argued that his conviction was based on junk science was executed ...

Attorney General William Barr ordered federal prisons to resume capital punishment on July 25. The order follows the ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume capital punishment.

JACKSON, Ga.—A Georgia inmate convicted of the 1996 shotgun slaying of a man who had agreed to give ...

Commentary If my friend ate my cookie, I would probably take her cake and gobble it up. No ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—U.S. prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against four adults who lived at a New Mexico ...

President Donald Trump slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom after Newsom ordered all executions in the state paused until ...

A district attorney (DA) in North Carolina announced on Feb. 15 that it intends to seek the death penalty ...

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer said on May 13 it is blocking use of its drugs to execute prisoners.

    As the nation is horrified by another botched execution, a capital defense lawyer in Texas, legal ...

A report advocating death penalty reforms finds that false confessions in capital cases can be limited by recording ...

The preferred method of execution in the United States, the lethal injection, is being intensely scrutinized in the wake of a ...

I've always found it quite interesting--and somewhat puzzling--that certain issues are always linked politically, even though they may ...

Oklahoma executes man: Steven Ray Thacker, 42, was executed Tuesday evening for the murder of three people in ...

Lethal injection is the leading method of execution in the United States, but a sedative found in some ...