"Death sentences are the most serious sanctions that governments can inflict on human beings, so all must be carefully reviewed for accuracy and fairness before an execution is scheduled," said Robin ...

The Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's 2023 capital sentencing law, rejecting constitutional challenges in two death ...

Prosecution and defense attorneys said Rodney Hinton suffers from a severe mental illness, and the judge will decide whether ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

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 ...

Maricopa County prosecutors have frequently pursued the death penalty, but just 13% of cases ended in a death sentence, ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...