The proposal would link capital punishment repeal with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

Two Miami Valley lawmakers were part of a bipartisan cohort Tuesday touting legislation to prohibit the use of state funds for assisted suicide and abolish the death penalty in Ohio, just a week after ...

Two Miami Valley lawmakers were part of a bipartisan cohort Tuesday touting legislation to prohibit the use of state funds for assisted suicide and abolish the death penalty in Ohio, just a week after ...

The Texas Tribune reported last week that the population of Death Row and the number of executions carried out continues to ...

The death row inmate was convicted of murder in 2002 and is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Friday.

Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.

The steady decline in executions in the United States could see a reversal with President Trump seeking the expansion of ...

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

This bill is not about whether the death penalty is good or bad,” Idaho Republican Representative Bruce Skaug stated. “Our job is to carry it out in the most efficient manner under the bounds of our ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

The president is directing the Justice Department to overrule the Supreme Court in cases where the justices have found ...

However, only three individuals remain on federal death row after former President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 people on Dec. 23 and instead sentenced them to lif ...