No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to ...

Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal ...

Idaho lawmakers advanced a bill to make a firing squad the state’s primary method of execution, as the trial of accused University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger approaches. Idaho Department of ...

Some view the death penalty as a “merciful” source of closure to the victim’s family and friends. But after a brief period of ...

A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the final appeal of James Dennis Ford, who is scheduled to be executed in Florida for the 1997 murders of a married couple during a fishing trip.

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

A proposal moving through Florida’s Legislature would require the death penalty for “unauthorized aliens” who commit a ...