While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall ...

Florida Gov. DeSantis on pace to break death penalty record with execution of mistaken-identity killer Michael Bell - The ...

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday declined to grant a new trial to a man convicted for orchestrating a pair of 20-year-old ...

The decision whether to seek a death sentence against Vance Boelter will ultimately lie in the hands of the Trump administration’s attorney general, a vocal supporter of capitol punishment. Federal ...

Capital punishment is a priority of the Trump administration, with the Deep South at the epicenter. We talk with our criminal justice reporter Kat Stromquist about the new method Alabama pioneered.

It’s not unheard of for state and federal prosecutors to both pursue criminal cases for the same offense, especially in ...

Minnesota abolished the death penalty in 1911 and there are few examples of it being pursued for crimes in the state.

The Indiana Department of Corrections says it does not have records showing the single-day cost of executing two death row ...

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine postpones the executions of three inmates, including the killer of a Cleveland police officer.

State Attorney R.J. Larizza announced plans to seek the death penalty against Dimeco Henderson, marking the first death penalty prosecution for a sexual assault case in Florida’s seventh judicial ...