Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a motion to pursue the second execution of her tenure, selecting Richard Djerf, a man ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for four people on death row in 2025. Oscar Franklin Smith's execution May 22 ...

An Indiana man convicted in the 2000 fatal shooting of a police officer is set to receive a lethal injection this week in the ...

Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve just over three ...

Human justice is never perfect. That’s why the death penalty is so dangerous. Indiana reminds us that it’s still with us.

Before Aaron Gunches' execution in March, experts warned that pentobarbitol could cause him to suffer. Here's what the ...

A judge has struck down federal prosecutors’ plan to pursue the death penalty in a Reno case after they said they would not ...

However, he allowed criminals to be mutilated for their crimes. During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows and they ...

The Death Penalty Information Center report reveals a disturbing pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in the death penalty ...

The Connecticut legislature’s Judiciary Committee has voted to advance a proposal that would penalize companies that ...