Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

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

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson has maintained that while he participated unknowingly in a violent church robbery, he did not harm anyone.

The law is well settled that if the defendants do not dispute the title of the plaintiffs then the suit should not fail only on the ground t... It is well settled that an agreement for sale in respect ...

The pastor's young widow, Laura Dobson, sobbed on the stand during Steven Nelson's murder trial, saying: 'I didn't know this ...

Attorney Gilda Daniels and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett denounce Trump's expansion of the federal death penalty, citing racial disparities and systemic injustices.

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.

An inmate on South Carolina’s death row died by lethal injection on Friday night, the third execution carried out by the ...

Advises the attorney general to pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use, with special attention to crimes involving the murder of law enforcement or capital crimes ...

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun suggested Monday he could reverse the previous administration’s unwillingness to disclose how much ...