Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...

Florida accounted for nearly half of US executions in 2025, according to Amnesty International’s new annual report on the ...

Two death row inmates were executed on Thursday, the first in a series of five scheduled across the United States over a period of eight days. Raymond Johnson was executed in Oklahoma on Thursday ...

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

The UN Human Rights Office raised alarm on Monday over a “sharp hike” in the number of executions globally in 2025. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk articulated the office’s key ...