Since 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom has imposed a moratorium on executions in California. Even so, 17 people have since been sentenced to death in California — 80% of whom are Black or Latino.

The American Civil Liberties Union considers the practice "barbaric, inequitable, and unjust.". Wisconsin was the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes. Here's what to know about ...

2001 – 2025. Hoadley was sentenced to life in prison for the crime, according to South Dakota Searchlight. Page was sentenced to death by lethal injection, which was carried out on July 11, 2007 ...

The attorneys representing death row inmate Joseph E. Corcoran, who's set to be executed a week before Christmas, are turning to the federal courts in a last-ditch effort to save his life.

A federal court judge has denied an Alaska man’s petition to appeal his death sentence and he will remain as the only inmate on death row in South Dakota. Briley Wayne Piper was sentenced to ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the State Capitol on March 13, 2019 in Sacramento. Newsom put a moratorium on the death penalty in California on Wednesday, sparing ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that a man on death row has exhausted all his legal remedies and set an execution date, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has not responded to a petition to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — There is once again a renewed push to abolish the death penalty in Ohio but this time, with a bit of a twist. The legislation, which has yet to be officially introduced ...

Missouri has 10 death row inmates and has executed 13 people in the same span of time. Indiana and Nebraska are a bit different — but by no means are they on the Catholic path.

“The death penalty is the law of Arizona, and as the attorney general it is my responsibility to uphold the law,” Mayes told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Friday.. Contreras wants the law to be changed.

Randolph has tried multiple times — in 2015, 2017 and 2019 — to abolish the death penalty. But all bills died without getting a committee hearing. In 2017, ...