In 2026, more than half of the United States still allows the death penalty as a sentence for those committing the most ...

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than ...

Federal appellate judges have revived a lawsuit by some Georgia death row prisoners alleging the state is unfairly favoring ...

A federal appeals court upheld a Texas death row inmate's sentence, finding that state courts did not unreasonably allow ...

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed 131 people since 1990, all by lethal injection. The state had a six-year ...

Mike Braun said the future of the death penalty will be up to state lawmakers. “It’s not an easy conversation,” Gov. Braun ...

(RNS) — There is a powerful movement working tirelessly to abolish the death penalty.

Gov. Mike DeWine, who’ll turn 80 on Jan. 5, isn’t likely to run for office again, so however and whatever he does about death ...

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed ...