The Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that had upheld death row inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction.

Bondi is moving quickly to reverse Biden administration policies, and right at the top of her list is the federal death penalty, which Biden opposed. The Biden Justice Department imposed a ...

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty “swing states”—states that have the death penalty on the books but ...

Instead, the court focused on the mandatory imposition of the death penalty — by hanging, which it ruled violated the right to life and the right to dignity, as protected under articles 4 and 5 ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes ...

One of his federal charges is eligible for the death penalty. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of ...

UPDATE: House Bill 1030, which would've repealed the death penalty in Indiana, died without a committee hearing. Supporters were optimistic because the bill — unlike previous legislative efforts ...

Ohio lawmakers who want to end the death penalty are testing a new strategy: Pairing their proposal with a ban on taxpayer-funded abortions. A group of Republicans and Democrats plan to introduce ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

The survey, conducted by the public opinion think tank More in Common, revealed a notable rise in support for the death penalty compared to its previous poll on the topic in 2023. The proportion ...

Iran executed as many as 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of the use of the death penalty, human rights groups claimed on Thursday. The data "reveals a horrifying escalation ...

Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League grad charged in the execution-style shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has added a free-of-charge death penalty expert to his defense team. Mangione's ...