Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

The details involving the harrowing final days in cases like Ng’s illustrate the fragility and inadequacy of Pennsylvania’s ...

But deaths have only continued to mount. At least five were recorded in 2024, including a New York City recruit who died of ...

A Tennessee death row prisoner declared a hunger strike on Wednesday, saying he was protesting issues with medical care, the ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...

The Netflix series Black Warrant, based on Sunetra Choudhury’s book Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer, sheds light on the harrowing realities faced b ...

The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

Tabler is set to be executed at 7 p.m. ET, one hour after the 6 p.m. execution of James Dennis Ford in Florida. They're set ...

A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison ...