So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

Texas judges scheduled the fewest executions in at least three decades in 2025, but the state continues to spend millions of ...

Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort ...

Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences ...

A coalition of anti-death penalty groups has united to end capital punishment state by state and just as U.S. executions are ...

To the Esteemed Members of the Knesset, For each of the eight nights of Hanukkah this year, we, the thousands of members ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences were imposed. That number had fallen to 26 by 2024. Alabama’s yearly death ...

HOUSTON (AP) — More Americans now believe the death penalty, which is undergoing a yearslong decline of use and support, is being administered unfairly, a finding that is adding to its growing ...

In March, Virginia abolished capital punishment, startling many Americans. But for close observers, the news wasn’t a huge surprise. “The United States has undergone a sea change in its views toward ...

Pope Francis has declared that the death penalty is unacceptable in all circumstances. NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Sister Helen Prejean about the history of the church's stance on capital punishment.

The Church at large is giving serious thought to capital punishment. Church councils and denominational assemblies are making strong pronouncements against it. We are hearing such arguments as: ...