Efforts to repeal the death penalty, not carried out in Pennsylvania since 1999, were revived this week with the introduction of legislation backed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The measure - ...

Officials have not released anything about the death of Travis P. Shorts, 34, who died at 2:55 a.m. on March 6 at Geisinger Medical Center near Danville. He had been hospitalized elsewhere on Feb. 10 ...

The 2025 legislative session is in full swing at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise and Governor Little just signed one of the most intriguing bills into law.

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all clemency granted by the governor.

Brad Keith Sigmon called for an end to the death penalty before he was executed by firing squad in South Carolina on Friday.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

A Philadelphia man was ordered Friday to stand trial in Cambria County court in the November stabbing death of an Adams ...

(CNN) — After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the opportunity to win his freedom after the US Supreme Court ordered he ...

Last year, Kenneth Smith, an Alabama death row inmate who was convicted in 1988,became the first known person in the world to be executed via nitrogen hypoxia. Despite the state’s claim that the ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, ordering a new trial and staving off his execution.

Meanwhile, Louisiana plans to execute a Death Row inmate in March using another ... while three others – California, Oregon and Pennsylvania – have moratoriums in place. Three states ...