Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has repeatedly postponed executions over the past seven years, said Tuesday that Ohio should abolish the death penalty, confirming his change of heart on the policy he ...

The Marshall Project reports on the 50th anniversary of Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the U.S.

(RNS) — There is a powerful movement working tirelessly to abolish the death penalty.

A conservative federal judge on Wednesday took the position that despite a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring the death ...

Two executions on May 14 were the first in a series of five scheduled across the country over eight days.

Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy “When I met Pope Leo I shared with him a drawing of Christ and Calvary that was sketched by a ...

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than ...

Netflix’s June 2026 documentary Maternal Instinct has reignited public interest in one of the most disturbing crimes in ...

Richard Daniel wanted to live long enough to see his wife's killer die by lethal injection. But Daniel died in 2020.