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

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 ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

A federal jury found Donald “Lil’ Don” Lee and Torance “Blackie” Benson guilty of a racketeering conspiracy in November 2022 ...

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

Iran executed 975 people in 2024 in ‘horrifying escalation’ of death penalty, damning report says - At least 31 women and one ...

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

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...