Former President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners, but newly inaugurated President Trump issued ...

Death penalty opponents in Tennessee got a jump on this year’s abolition efforts by urging the state to stop all executions ...

ELON, N.C. — Update: On the deadline, Fri., Oct. 3, Gov. Josh Stein signed Iryna's Law. The clock is ticking on the fate of capital punishment, in a controversial bill Gov. Josh Stein has until Friday ...

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for ...

A Kansas judge dismissed a death penalty challenge on procedural grounds because the defendants no longer face execution. The judge acknowledged concerns about the death penalty's cost, racial bias ...

The Utah Supreme Court has blocked a death row inmate's upcoming execution, after the inmate's attorneys argued in an extensive legal back-and-forth with the state that their client's worsening ...

Gov. Mike Braun speaks to reporters at the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (Casey Smith/Indiana Capital Chronicle) Indiana has exhausted its supply of lethal injection drugs after ...

President and CEO Robert McAnnally emphasized that "in August, we raised our full year guidance on strong year-to-date financial performance and the expected impact of Texas House Bill 4384. Based on ...

Earlier this month, Florida executed Michael Bell for murdering two people in 1993. He was the eighth person put to death there this year. Bell’s execution would have attracted little attention but ...