Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed orders to execute more inmates in one year than any other governor in state history.

Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

Williams killed her daughter "in a cold, calculated, and premediated manner without any pretense of moral or legal ...

Capital punishment is legal in 29 US states. There are about 2,600 death row inmates, with California detaining the most.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

Many of the presidential candidates are on record opposing capital punishment; Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president who is expected to enter the race in the coming weeks, has supported it.