Texas judges scheduled the fewest executions in at least three decades in 2025, but the state continues to spend millions of ...

Texas' execution numbers remain far lower than recent state highs, even as executions nationally climbed, driven almost ...

The Sunshine State accounts for nearly 40 percent of all executions carried out in America in 2025.

While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year ...

This year, 48 people are expected to be executed in the U.S. Meanwhile, fewer new death sentences are being issued, and ...

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences were imposed. That number had fallen to 26 by 2024. Alabama’s yearly death ...

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

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

For the first time in the U.S., the Boise Art Museum is displaying the full work of artist Julie Green’s indictment of the ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-five people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state carried out its 17th execution Nov. 20, with two more scheduled by the end of ...

Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla. in 2023. (Curt Anderson/AP) Richard Randolph, a man who was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his manager at a convenience store in 1988, was executed ...