Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution ...

For the second consecutive year, a bill seeking to remove the death penalty from Delaware’s constitution is up for debate in ...

A bill introduced by Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) to alter Texas’ capital murder statute — ensuring that those convicted ...

Edward James was executed in Florida for 1993 murders, with courts denying stays despite claims of his cognitive decline.

Over recent decades, the number of executions nationally has declined sharply amid legal battles, a shortage of lethal ...

A retired judge poured over boxes of records, interviewed dozens of people at the many nexuses of state executions, and ...

The attorney general’s office has identified 22 individuals on death row who have exhausted their appeals and are among those ...

Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death ...

If opponents of capital punishment had to sum up their entire case in one tableau, it would be a scene showing a 19th century English pickpocket reaching for the pocket of a spectator at the ...