Florida has already carried out nine executions in 2023, surpassing any other US state. Texas and South Carolina currently ...

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

Our state leads the nation in putting killers to death this year, but no one really believes death sentences are working.

Opponents of capital punishment on Friday called on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to reverse Arkansas' decision to allow ...

Ahead of Byron Black's execution on August 5, it's time to re-examine the horrors of capital punishment and Tennesseans' role ...

The U.S. directed prosecutors to not seek capital punishment for three reputed drug lords, including one in a DEA agent's ...

Two Pittsburgh lawyers involved in efforts before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to curb the Washington County district ...

Many of the presidential candidates are on record opposing capital punishment; Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president who is expected to enter the race in the coming weeks, has supported it.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...

It is the quickest pace of capital punishment since March 2022, when 81 people were executed in a single day for ...