Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice W. Brent Powell reflects on the work of the courts, and one of his predecessors, as 2025 ...

Samuel L. Hayes was strapped into a restraint chair and left to die. Now his mom's attorneys are struggling to get records ...

So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted ...

The Public News Service Tuesday afternoon update, I'm Mike Clifford. The Supreme Court today will hear a major challenge to ...

A coalition of anti-death penalty groups has united to end capital punishment state by state and just as U.S. executions are ...

Lawyers for a man facing execution in Georgia argue that an agreement related to the COVID-19 pandemic should protect him ...

The U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a coalition of over 50 organizations, has been launched to abolish capital ...

A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year. Jimmie Duncan had originally been convicted of ...

A Louisiana man who spent nearly 30 years on death row walked out of prison Wednesday after a judge overturned his conviction and granted him bail. Jimmie Duncan, now in his 60s, was sentenced to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ralph Menzies, convicted of killing Maurine ...