For the first time in its modern history, South Carolina has executed a prisoner by firing squad. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in ...

Louisiana’s leaders have the power to choose mercy over death, to affirm that our justice system is capable of grace. Jessie ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...

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

The latest schedule of executions in the United States is another grim reminder that capital punishment remains an entrenched ...

In the last two weeks, several major developments relating to the death penalty occurred across multiple states and they had one significant, yet surprising, thing in common: all of the efforts to ...

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

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

Lawyers for Louisiana and death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. have agreed to unseal the state's nitrogen gas execution ...

Bryan Kohberger's defense argues that death penalty should be taken off the table for potential sentencing on the basis of his autism diagnosis.

Efforts to end the death penalty in Ohio have gained more support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in recent years.

That rattled Glennville Republican state Rep. Bill Werkheiser, who months earlier had introduced legislation to make it ...