The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, ...
Civil rights advocates are urging California to make Clarence Ray Allen's execution the last by permanently ending the ...
Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about ...
Despite a downward trend in the use of the death penalty globally, 2025 saw an ‘alarming’ increase in the number of ...
Ohio governors of both parties have long understood clemency as a necessary backstop.
Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...
New Hampshire lawmakers are taking up a range of bills this month that would reinstate the use of the death penalty in the ...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his administration will seek the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington, DC, a move that could collide with longstanding city law and ...
The 16 officers indicted for plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu are reportedly facing capital punishment ranging ...