capital punishment

The on-again, off-again scheduling of Richard Glossip's execution will be heard by the Supreme Court thanks to questions from Oklahoma.

As states have struggled to acquire the medications used since the 1990s to put inmates to death via ...

Federal prosecutors want Payton Gendron executed.

A federal judge has given the green light for Alabama to execute a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a ...

According to Mr. Knight, the entire process has been plagued with problems. He said that after Mr. Glossip’s ...

OKLAHOMA CITY—Talk show host and clinical psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw stood on the steps of the Oklahoma Capitol ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on May 5 granted death row inmate Richard Glossip a stay of execution. At ...

The state of Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Richard Glossip on May 18 for the 1997 murder of ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave final approval to a measure that puts an end to the requirement that all ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Former Vice President Mike Pence told the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) ...

A new Florida bill allowing capital punishment for those committing sexual battery on children under 12 cleared the ...

Commentary What is the usefulness, morality, and appropriateness of the death penalty, especially as a deterrent and a ...

A bipartisan bill proposed in the Kentucky legislature would eliminate the death penalty and replace it with life ...

The story is without a happy ending for most prisoners sitting on death row in the United States. But ...

Commentary Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the nation’s reddest ...

The Supreme Court late on Sept. 8 granted a last-minute reprieve to a convicted murderer in Texas who ...

An Ohio mother who was charged with murder in the death of her young daughter will be eligible ...

SANTA ANA—A 45-year-old Lake Forest man is behind bars on a murder charge for allegedly beating his longtime ...

Commentary The death penalty in the United States is on the verge of being snuffed out. The commonwealth ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions, and lawmakers must choose a different method ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—The Trump administration was moving ahead early Tuesday with the execution of the first federal prison ...

A judge has blocked the first federal execution in 17 years over concerns regarding the CCP virus from ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration's plan to resume executions of federal death row ...

A Dallas man was executed Thursday evening for a shooting in which he killed his wife, two children ...

A Saudi Arabia court sentenced five people to death on Dec. 23 for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday to deny a request by the Trump administration to restart federal ...

A filing to the Supreme Court in support of the Trump administration's move to restart federal executions was ...