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 ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

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

The Arizona Supreme Court set a March 19 execution date Tuesday for a man who pleaded guilty to murder more than 17 years ago and recently said his death sentence was “long ...

Governor Jeff Landry announced a state of emergency was declared and that Louisiana will start doing execution by nitrogen ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

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The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

New law, attorney tells the state Supreme Court, demands that Raymond Oyler’s murder convictions, death penalty be overturned ...

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at gunpoint, and killing her.