Lawmakers in Concord heard several hours of public testimony Friday on bills to restore capital punishment, with the majority ...

Lawmakers repealed the state's death penalty law in 2019, but Gov. Kelly Ayotte says she'd like to bring it back. Meanwhile, ...

The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, ...

At the starting gate this month to the second session of the 136th Ohio General Assembly, hopes run low that this will be a banner year ...

Opponents of the death penalty turned out in big numbers in Concord again Thursday to speak against legislation to bring ...

Indiana lawmakers seek to introduce new methods of execution. The moral costs are even heavier than the financial ones.

(The Hill) — State lawmakers have taken up President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of ...

"Death sentences are the most serious sanctions that governments can inflict on human beings, so all must be carefully reviewed for accuracy and fairness before an execution is scheduled," said Robin ...

Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...

An Alabama House committee advances bills to expand the death penalty's scope, igniting debate on justice for heinous crimes ...