Humphreys, 52, was facing scheduled execution Dec. 17 but the procedure was paused just days before he was to have received a ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro issued his first death penalty reprieve, continuing Pennsylvania's moratorium on executions and reflecting ...

“We’re in the midst of something historic,” said Robert Dunham, director of the Death Penalty Policy Project, as the U.S. braces for its highest number of executions in a decade. The focus is on ...

On Thursday night, Florida executed its 19th person on death row this year, more than doubling the state's previous annual record.

While Pennsylvania has a lengthy list of inmates nominally on death row, the state hasn't actually executed anyone since 1999 ...

Florida has executed death row inmate Michael Bernard Bell, marking a 10-year high for executions in the U.S. Bell was executed on Tuesday, July 15, for the revenge killings of 23-year-old Jimmy West ...

Murder, a capital crime, was added months later to the charges, after the DOJ revived its death penalty policy and singled out Youngblut’s case as a prime example of how the Trump administration will ...

Rep. Jim Lucas is exploring legislation to allow for execution by firing squad or gallows, citing the $300,000 cost of lethal injection drugs. While Gov. Mike Braun hasn't endorsed a specific ...

A Florida man convicted in a 1990 triple homicide and arson was scheduled for execution on September 17 after Governor Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant. Florida authorities have scheduled David ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump has been forthright about his intention to bring about a death-penalty renaissance, and now his ...