The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

Governor J.B. Pritzker is blocking any January 6 rioters pardoned by Donald Trump from working for the state of Illinois.

Defensive lineman T.J. Slaton picked up an unnecessary roughness penalty with just more than 5 minutes to go, allowing the Philadelphia Eagles to move the chains and eventually kick a field goal ...

Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. So at the last conference, the ...

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

The death penalty is no longer hanging over a Fort Lauderdale man charged with killing his estranged wife in Spain. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami said this week that “it does not intend to seek ...

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