An Alabama legislator wants to expand the number of circumstances that can allow the death penalty to be imposed. Rep. Matt ...

The US has carried out 25 executions this year, with 60% concentrated in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina, while new death ...

Thirty years ago, the film “Dead Man Walking” had its debut in movie theaters around the United States. It was a box office ...

Defense attorneys for Teresa Youngblut file a motion against the DOJ's accelerated capital punishment process after Border ...

The attorney defending Richardson Dangleben Jr. is arguing that the U.S. Attorney’s notice that the office intends to seek the death penalty “should be struck as cruel and unusual,” but ...

The amendment to remove capital punishment from Delaware’s Constitution must be voted on twice consecutively by lawmakers.

The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig has spent years closely covering capital punishment. She’s written a powerful and deeply ...

Not a single jury in Oklahoma has issued a new death sentence in the past three years, a sign that public opinion has changed ...