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

Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...

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

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.

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

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and others are eagerly awaiting Gov. Mike DeWine's upcoming announcement on the death penalty ...

This year, 48 people are expected to be executed in the U.S. Meanwhile, fewer new death sentences are being issued, and ...

The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal yesterday filed an appeal with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, seeking to enhance the life sentences of ousted prime minister Sheikh ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a ...

Even as more state leaders try to expand capital punishment, fewer jurors are choosing it.

A planned Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, which could be adopted as soon as 2029, has the potential to enhance protections for civilians at risk globally.