There have been five executions apiece this year in Texas, Alabama and South Carolina. Florida leads the nation with 18.

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

A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 ...

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

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

A Chattanooga representative said this new bill he's proposing will give prosecutors a tool to deal with what he calls the ...

Ohio’s stalled death penalty exposes the false promise of finality and the irreversible danger of wrongful executions, making ...

DeWine, who has prevented executions from taking place in Ohio since 2019, has said he's preparing to reveal his personal ...

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 ...

The United States had the highest number of executions in about 15 years this year due to an increase in Florida, report ...

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