Yug Mohit Chaudhry, a Mumbai-based criminal lawyer and one of India’s most prominent voices against capital punishment, explains why executions are overwhelmingly imposed on the poor, why ...

Michael Bell is to be executed on July 15 for murdering two people outside a Jacksonville bar Dec. 9, 1993, when he went on a ...

Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, ...

While the state leads the nation in executions, 100 Florida faith leaders call on DeSantis to pause what they call ...

More than 100 faith leaders are calling on Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to pause all executions before the state breaks its ...

Michael Bell's attorney raised a series of issues with the Florida Supreme Court, including that witnesses recently recanted ...

Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly ...

Kohberger pleaded guilty to one charge of burglary and four charges of first degree homicide as he accepted the plea deal.

Florida may carry out more executions in 2025 than in any other year in recent history. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed nine ...

Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the ...

After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a ...

With the election of Leo XIV, we may soon hear where St. Peter’s new successor stands on the question of the death penalty.