Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

It is the quickest pace of capital punishment since March 2022, when 81 people were executed in a single day for ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed orders to execute more inmates in one year than any other governor in state history.

Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...

Many of the presidential candidates are on record opposing capital punishment; Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president who is expected to enter the race in the coming weeks, has supported it.

Capital punishment is legal in 29 US states. There are about 2,600 death row inmates, with California detaining the most.

Since the mid-1980s, Gallup has been tracking Americans’ enthusiasm for capital punishment versus life imprisonment as their preferred consequence for people convicted of murder.

Guard towers and razor wire ring the compound at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., the site of the last federal execution. (Michael Conroy/AP) In the July 26 front-page article ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

It came instead from a Gallup poll released in October that revealed that public support for capital punishment is at its lowest ebb since November 1972—at 60 percent. That date is significant.