If our state is truly committed to ending its culture of death, physician involvement in the death penalty needs to end. Contact Jacob Stewart at 317-444-4683 or jacob.stewart@indystar.com. Follow ...

Another 11 have been scheduled for the rest of the year in eight states, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, including Wainright, Hunt, Stanko, and Hanson.

Following two state executions of death row inmates in less than six months, Gov. Mike Braun said June 3 that Indiana does not have any more of the drug used and he does not "intend to put another ...

Stephen Christopher Stanko who murdered his girlfriend, Laura Ling, and friend, Henry Turner, in 2005 was sentenced to death in two separate murder trials.

Judges should not acquiesce in that effort. As the Death Penalty Information Center explains, “Unobstructed media access to executions is critical because the media observes what the public cannot.

This collection of columns examines the debate in South Carolina over methods of execution for death row inmates. The articles discuss the involvement of the Newman family, with Clifton presiding ...

Lethal injection and the death penalty is a very serious subject, but one thing I appreciated about this book is that it is written in a very approachable style and it's even sometimes funny.

The death chamber inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, contains both the metal chair used in execution by firing squad, left, and the wooden electric ...

Abraham Bonowitz, executive director of Death Penalty Action, told Newsweek that the executions "provide multiple examples of how the death penalty is reserved for the least among us.