Death penalty rare in modern Oregon. Recent changes by the Legislature and rulings by the Oregon Supreme Court resulted in fewer people on Oregon’s death row. Since 2019, ...

The Oregon Death Penalty Cost Analysis report was funded by the Oregon Justice Resource Center, a Portland-based nonprofit, and written by Professor Aliza Kaplan from Lewis & Clark Law School, ...

Washington, Arizona, and Oregon in 1919-20 reinstated the death penalty. In 1924, the first execution by cyanide gas took place in Nevada, when Tong war gang murderer Gee Jon became its first victim.

Bryan Kohberger is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to all counts in the killings of four University of Idaho students, ...

Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or ...

Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon ... next mission is ending the death penalty ‘Broken beyond repair’: 150 executives including Sheryl ...