A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

Idaho Department of Correction estimates renovation costs for a firing squad facility is likely to exceed $1 million.

Efforts to repeal the death penalty have been introduced in two Republican-led states, with some lawmakers citing their ...

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

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 Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an adult is convicted of rape or sodomy of a child under 12. The legislation ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

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

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 ...