A new bill at the Tennessee State Capitol is aimed at making it easier for prosecutors to seek the death penalty against ...

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

The U.S. has seen 35 executions this year, already surpassing the number of executions carried out last year and could be the highest since 2012.

The justices seemed to reject Justice Neil Gorsuch’s earlier call for major changes to the rules governing punishment.

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

The Catechism, per the 2018 revision, states that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the ...

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in the case against Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police officer ...

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

The feds aren’t pursuing the death penalty against the first person in the US to be accused of participating in Oct. 7 likely because it would be too difficult to tie him to any specific death, an ...

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state carried out its 17th execution Nov. 20, with two more scheduled by the end of ...

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