As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest request for a stay of execution. Victor Tony Jones was sentenced to death in ...

Capital punishment has been rarer in recent years, but 2025 has brought a complete reversal. This year has seen the most death row inmates put to death in a decade, a trend that will likely only ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year has hit a 15-year high. A handful of states have suddenly accelerated the ...

Thirty-five men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, including one early Friday, with at least six others scheduled to be put to death later this month. The total for ...

The annual number of death row inmates executed in the U.S. is set to nearly double by the end of this year. In 2024, 25 death row inmates were executed, according to the Death Penalty Information ...

Twenty-nine men have died this year by court-ordered execution in the United States, and that number is set to rise on Thursday as Florida prepares to execute 59-year-old Curtis Windom via lethal ...

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 ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...