Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

Gunches wants to die, but controversy surrounds execution methods in Arizona, which hasn’t killed a prisoner since 2022.

A Republican legislator made a public plea Monday for his bill to abolish Indiana's death penalty, arguing that the state's ...

The ACLU of Ohio opposes the bill. "Our organization has maintained an anti-death penalty stance since our founding, but this 'bait and switch' bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing, slyly designed ...

Ohio lawmakers who want to end the death penalty are testing a new strategy: Pairing their proposal with a ban on taxpayer-funded abortions. A group of Republicans and Democrats plan to introduce ...

In a statement, Biden stated that his decision to commute death row prisoners is consistent with his stance against the death penalty and that he does not consider these commutations as any sort of ...

While the anti-death penalty lawmakers expressed optimism that this compromising bill might finally make it into law, Montgomery County Rep. Phil Plummer, R-Butler Twp. told this outlet Tuesday ...

Attorney General Dave Yost has consistently pushed back against efforts to eliminate the death penalty, issuing a report in September that pushed for its return. As previously reported by The ...

"They were sentenced to death... on Friday for spreading blasphemous content online against the Prophet Mohammed and the Quran," Rao Abdur Raheem, a lawyer from the legal commission on blasphemy ...