Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort ...

Texas also saw counties set the fewest new execution dates in at least three decades, according to an annual report by the ...

To the Esteemed Members of the Knesset, For each of the eight nights of Hanukkah this year, we, the thousands of members ...

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences were imposed. That number had fallen to 26 by 2024. Alabama’s yearly death ...

Madison County is second on the list compiled by the nonprofit Alabama Reflector. Morgan County is in a group tied for third.

Ohio’s stalled death penalty exposes the false promise of finality and the irreversible danger of wrongful executions, making ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—After years of repeatedly announcing postponements of scheduled executions in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine has now scheduled a new death-penalty announcement for next month: one about his ...

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A majority of U.S. Catholics support the death penalty for convicted murderers in spite of Church teaching, according to a ...

Frank Walls, convicted of the 1987 murders of Edward Alger and Ann Peterson, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday, Dec.

So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences ...