The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...

Only three other defendants had been executed by firing squad in the country since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Sigmon’s execution was the sixth in the U.S. so far in 2025.

It did not elaborate on the decision in a brief three-page order ... and the U.S. military use the death penalty. Three states — California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania — also allow capital ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Rube ...

A prisoner scheduled to be executed in what would be Arizona's first use of the death penalty in over two years will not ask ...

According to a new analysis by the Death Penalty Policy Project, non-unanimous death sentences — three in Alabama and six in Florida — accounted for more than one-third of the 26 death ...

Finally, she ordered the Office of Legal Policy “to evaluate all potential avenues to strengthen the federal death penalty as a valid means of punishment for the heinous crimes it is intended to ...

Issue: Whether this court has clearly required state courts to reopen the mitigation evidence in every death-penalty remand, even if the error did not affect the defendant’s opportunity to submit ...