Gov. Chris Sununu was against repealing the state’s death penalty in 2019. Still, the New Hampshire Legislature abolished capital punishment by overriding his veto. The penalty now is life in ...

New Hampshire in 1812, to two and Ohio in 1815, to two. Each of these states built state penitentiaries. A few states went the opposite direction. Rhode Island restored the death penalty for rape ...

Indiana ended its 15-year pause on the execution of inmates sentenced to death. However, legislation already has been filed ...

Of the five states with the lowest homicide rates (per 100,000) — New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah, Massachusetts, and Maine —only Utah has the death penalty. State data shows 27 states with ...

The execution of an Alabama prisoner on Jan. 25 involved the first new death penalty method employed in decades and the first execution in the U.S. of 2024. Kenneth Eugene Smith – who was ...