Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

A spokesperson for Louisiana's attorney general said "four to five" condemned prisoners are eligible to be executed. But that ...

Brenda’s attorneys claimed in the lead up to her trial that the prosecution’s case was completely “circumstantial," PEOPLE previously reported. Pavatt is also currently on death row ...

and the number of people on death row, about 2,250. Public support for the death penalty, meanwhile, remained at a five-decade low, 53%. But the report’s most important finding for the future of ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

A Texas man on death row, Richard Lee Tabler, uttered two desperate last words just moments before being executed by lethal ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

In 2022, the death row population dropped to under 200 inmates for the first time in almost three decades, and by the start of 2025, there were 174 people on Texas’ death row. Still, Texas has ...