Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

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

Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

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

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

In light of the recent nationwide call for swifter execution of rapists and the Law Advisor’s reponse, we revisit the legal and societal implications of the death penalty for rape ...

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk ...