In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

There are 32 attorneys, investigators and specialists in the Missouri State Public Defender Office dedicated to preventing the wrongful execution of innocent people on death row. The agency spends ...

A conservative anti-death penalty group is calling on Arkansas to forgo executions, citing concerns about a new form of capital punishment that critics describe as cruel. Known as nitrogen hypoxia, ...

Referred to as a “hotspot of capital prosecution,” Washington County was the primary focus of a panel discussion hosted by an anti-death penalty group Tuesday morning. The Philadelphia-based Atlantic ...

INDIANAPOLIS — One year ago this week, Indiana resumed execution of death row inmates by lethal injection after a 15-year hiatus. In the past 12 months, Indiana has executed three men. Tuesday morning ...

Iran ‘orders death penalty for dozens of protesters’ - despite Trump’s promise to protect them - Human rights group says ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – The moral divide over the death penalty played out in Florida this week in a remarkably personal and unusual display, as the state executed its first prisoner of 2026. Florida executed ...

A Tennessee bill that sought to charge women who seek abortions with homicide, including the death penalty, died in a House subcommittee on March 10.

In response to Alex Sternberg: The heart of Israel’s death penalty bill.

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...