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

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

The Supreme Court has ruled that executing the innocent does not violate the Constitution, but some states allow people ...

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

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

Tony West believed in public service. As a Republican, he served five terms in the House and three in the Senate from 1973 ...

As the Rodney Hinton Jr. case begins to get underway in court, we now know that it will be a death penalty case. However, recent history shows that it is much easier said than done to successfully ...

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

As Pope Leo XIV begins his papacy, Catholics worldwide will be looking to him for guidance on important issues like ...

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

A new act is aiming for the federal government to pursue the death penalty in all 50 states, even where it's banned, for undocumented murderers.