Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has extended the state's unofficial death penalty moratorium once again with the ...

Illinois prosecutors said Norma Caraker's dating made her son "angrier and angrier, until he got drunk enough that he ...

Senators Julie Mayfield (D-District 49), Graig Meyer (D-District 23) and Natalie Murdock (D-District 20) were the primary sponsors of the bill that looks to repeal the death penalty in North Carolina ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death warrants for two executions this March. In this file photo from 2009, a death ...

A Florida man convicted of murdering a couple during a fishing trip while the couple's toddler looked on is scheduled to ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Defense attorneys for Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger hope bombshell new evidence might exonerate him from charges of ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Daniel Sikkema was charged with the plotting the 2024 murder of his husband, Manhattan art gallery owner Brent Sikkema, in ...

As Nebraska slowly builds its next class, a Citrus Bowl imbroglio helped Bret Bielema and Illinois break out on the 2026 ...

Court schedules March 19 execution for Arizona man in what would be state's first use of the death penalty since 2022.