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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Gudinas's execution is Florida's seventh this year. And already, Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an 8th warrant—tying the record for the most death warrants signed in a year since 1976, when the ...

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

BOISE, Idaho – Ada County Judge Steven Hippler has approved Bryan Kohberger’s plea deal for life in prison. Kohberger pleaded ...

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

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.