Cleophus Cooksey was arrested in December 2017 after police responded to a call at his mother’s home and found him with blood on his hands.

George Ryan, the former Republican governor of Illinois, died at the age of 91, leaving behind a legacy as a champion of ...

Tennessee has plenty of prison space to incarcerate the “worst of the worst,” saving Tennesseans a whole heap of money in ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

After finding Cousins, 48, guilty of capital murder last week, a jury in Criminal District Court No. 3 in Tarrant County on ...

While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...

Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time anti-death penalty advocate, believes Ohio is on the verge of abolishing capital punishment due to growing support for repeal and the state's own capital punishment ...

Spending $600k on lethal injection drugs shows that Tennessee prioritizes death over survivor support and violence prevention ...

Does killing a killer kill justice?

L.A. County D.A. Nathan Hochman is under fire for reviving the death penalty, endorsing dehumanizing language in court, and ...

“It is not punishment to be removed from this country,” DeSantis said in Miramar at an event spotlighting Operation Tidal ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi recently said she is "signing death warrants" as President Donald Trump brings back capital ...