The Death Penalty Information Center report reveals a disturbing pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in the death penalty ...

China has been named the world’s lead executioner in Amnesty International’s annual report on global capital punishment, ...

Last year a Connecticut firm said it stopped manufacturing a drug used during lethal injections of criminals, but its website ...

The announcement is the latest example of a shift in the politics of the death penalty since Donald Trump returned to office.

Idaho’s prison system once again is without execution drugs after its stockpile expired earlier this year, the latest in a ...

If the state of Indiana moves forward with the execution of convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie on May 20 as planned, the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is requesting the death penalty for two alleged human smugglers from Mexico. Virginia ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Florida Legislature has passed four bills expanding the state's death penalty, some of which are unconstitutional, and all ...