Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose ...

The United States had the highest number of executions in about 15 years this year due to an increase in Florida, report ...

The Supreme Court announced on Monday it will take up a death row inmate’s challenge over allegations that the dismissal of ...

Ohio’s stalled death penalty exposes the false promise of finality and the irreversible danger of wrongful executions, making ...

Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...

Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles considers a clemency application.

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 ...

Frank Walls, convicted of the 1987 murders of Edward Alger and Ann Peterson, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday, Dec.

Stacey Ian Humphreys was convicted of killing two Cobb County real estate agents in 2003.

“The death penalty ensures these morally depraved individuals can never reoffend.” ...

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