death penalty

The law would put Idaho on par with Florida.

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

The second E. Jean Carroll trial against former President Donald Trump concluded. The jury in Manhattan ordered him ...

SAN FRANCISCO—The California Supreme Court on Jan. 22 upheld the death penalty for Glenn Taylor Helzer, the leader ...

The Supreme Court has declined to halt the execution of an inmate who is set to die by ...

'Allowing a capital sentence to be carried out where the conviction was occasioned by the government’s own admitted ...

The case is set to challenge a Supreme Court decision that has been upheld for more than 45 ...

The Alabama Supreme Court issued an order on Nov. 1 effectively allowing the state to execute a man ...

The new law is meant to challenge an earlier SCOTUS ruling barring the use of capital punishment in ...

“You can’t do this to families. We need to defend our law enforcement officers, and that’s not—that's a ...

Alabama could become the first state to execute a prisoner by forcing him to breathe in pure nitrogen, ...

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

Is the death penalty off the table for the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks? Families of some of ...

Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, has been handed a death sentence ...

Former President Donald Trump released a campaign proposal on July 21 saying that he would subject human traffickers ...

STARKE, Fla.—A Florida man was executed Thursday for killing a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother of two ...

The Supreme Court sided on May 15 with a condemned man in Alabama who wants to be executed ...

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

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed a new bill into law that will authorize the death penalty for ...

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

OKLAHOMA CITY—Anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean told a group of about 35 people in the Oklahoma State ...

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 ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has backed legislation that would allow capital punishment for pedophiles convicted of sexual battery ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign into law a bill that would no longer require a ...

The Supreme Court refused—over the dissent of three liberal justices—on April 3 to take up an appeal by ...

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