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

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

Tennessee's attorney general has filed notice seeking execution dates for five men on death row. It's another sign the state ...

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

A convicted killer has been executed after spending over two decades sitting on death row. Back in February 2001 ... We are kind, caring, loving people, and it’s a shame the world can’t ...

Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, faces murder and terrorism charges in New ...

The bounds of presidential power can be hazy, and the Republican-appointed supermajority on the Supreme Court could expand ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022 ... He had also asked that his appeals be dropped and that he be put to death, though he had gone back and forth on the decision multiple times, the ...

It occurred to me that people who committed similar crimes in countries of the European Union, where there is no death penalty system, did not have their lives taken away. I found it unreasonable ...

In the January 20 executive order, Trump directed his attorney general to evaluate the conditions of confinement for the 37 people commuted from federal death row at the end of Biden’s term and ...