The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the late 1970s. The largest number of executions has been carried out in ...

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

Death setence for convicted teen killer Dale Dwayne Craig remains off the table for now. AG's office gets another shot to ...

As Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate with nitrogen gas, the Supreme Court's three liberal justices wrote a ...

Alabama on Thursday executed a death row inmate using a method Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called "torturous ...

(Reuters) -As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

As Missouri awaited Gov. Mike Kehoe’s decision on whether to halt the execution of death row inmate Lance Shockley, students at Saint Louis University joined Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied a rehearing for death row inmate Martez Abram. Abram was convicted of killing two ...