Capital Punishment
Navajo Nation Urges Trump to Commute Sentence of Native American InmateLezmond Mitchell is set to be executed on August 26 for the 2001 slayings of a 63-year-old Navajo woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter.
U.S. Set to Execute Only Native American on Federal Death RowLezmond Mitchell, 37, a Navajo, is scheduled to be put to death on August 26 at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Life Without Parole Is No Substitute for Capital PunishmentFor the worst of the worst of the worst, there is only one just punishment.
Rushed Federal Executions Show Contempt, Not Respect, For the Rule of LawThe government raced to conduct executions in cases in which it knew litigation was pending on numerous critical issues, leaving the courts with insufficient time.
Tennessee Death Row Inmate Seeks DNA Testing, Says It Will Prove InnocencePervis Payne is set to be executed on December 3 for the 1987 slaying of 28-year-old Charisse Christopher and her toddler daughter.
Justice ReturnsThe nation's most prominent retributivist advocate for the death penalty weighs in on the resumption of federal executions.
U.S. Executes Wesley Purkey, Who Calls It a 'Sanitized Murder'Wesley Ira Purkey was put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, hours after the Supreme Court cleared the way for his execution to proceed.
Judge Halts Wesley Purkey's Execution After Attorneys Say He's Not FitPurkey, 68, was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Wednesday.
Wesley Purkey Faces Execution—His Attorneys Say He Doesn't Understand WhyPurkey, 68, of Lansing, Kansas is scheduled to receive the lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana on Wednesday.
Supreme Court Rules First Federal Execution In 17 Years Can ProceedDaniel Lewis Lee had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Monday, but a court order issued by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan halted it.
Who Is Daniel Lewis Lee? First Federal Inmate to Be Executed in 17 YearsThe 47-year-old, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to receive the lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana for the 1996 killings of an Arkansas family.
Federal Execution Planner Tests Positive for CoronavirusIn a court filing, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) said the employee tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday.
Billy Wardlow's Fiancée Says Church Employee Ruined Her GoodbyeA video provided to Newsweek shows Danielle Allen's encounter with Gina Bradford, whose job involves comforting those who have lost loved ones in executions, at Grace Baptist Church in Hunstville, Texas.
Billy Wardlow Gets Lethal Injection as Texas Resumes ExecutionsThe 45-year-old was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the fatal shooting of 82-year-old Carl Cole in June 1993.
The U.S. is Set to Execute a Man With Dementia. He Won't Even Know WhyWesley Purkey has schizophrenia, brain damage, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's and dementia. The Constitution requires the prisoner to understand why he is being executed. He clearly doesn't meet that test.
Supreme Court Halts Texas Man's Execution One Hour Before Scheduled DeathRuben Gutierrez, 43, had been scheduled to die at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman in 1998.
Saudi Arabia Says It Will Stop Executing Children. But Read the Small PrintThe Kingdom garnered praise for announcing the decree—but it was never published, and it's unclear whether or not it even applies to the thirteen currently on death row for offenses allegedly committed when they were children.
Attorneys Seek to Delay Execution of Tennessee Death Row InmateByron Lewis Black, 64, is scheduled to be put to death on October 4 for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters in 1988.
Tennessee Supreme Court Stays Execution of Death Row Inmate Due to COVID-19Oscar Franklin Smith, 70, was scheduled to be executed on June 4 for the 1989 slayings of his estranged wife and her two sons.
Attorney For Death Row Inmate Responds After Governor Denies ClemencyNicholas Sutton, 58, is set to be executed at the Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville on Thursday evening.
Death Row 'Maintenance Man' Faces Execution. But Advocates Say He's ChangedNicholas Todd Sutton, 58, is scheduled to be executed for the killing of another inmate in Tennessee. Prison staff, relatives of his victims, and others who know him say he is a new man.
A U.S. Ally Tortured Me Into False Confession. Now I'm Facing DeathThe beatings and torture have been cut from the story the regime has written for me. It terrifies me to think there is only one chapter left.
My Death Sentence Has Been Set For Christmas Day—So That You Won't NoticeI was arrested and tortured into making false confessions after demanding democracy in Bahrain. This week, the Kingdom plans to sentence me to death while the world is busy celebrating.
William Barr Claims This Execution is for Us—But We Don't Want It | OpinionDaniel Lee, convicted for murdering our loved ones, is scheduled to be executed on December 9th. Attorney General William Bar said he's resuming federal executions for the victims and their families. He's wrong.
Petition to Free Death Row Inmate Rodney Reed Nears 3 Million SignaturesA petition to exonerate a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on November 20 has received almost 3 million signatures.
Serial Killer Who Targeted Gay Men Slated for Execution This WeekGary Ray Bowles confessed to brutally murdering six gay men over an eight-month period in 1994. After 20 years on death row, his execution is scheduled for Thursday.
Bringing Back Federal Death Penalty Will Hit LGBTQ, People of Color HardestThe race of the victim and the race of the defendant in are major factors in determining who is sentenced to death in this country. The defendant's sexuality has a bearing too.
Trump Covering for MBS As Executions Double in Saudi Arabia: ActivistsAt least 122 people have been executed by the Saudi government this year as the royal family intensifies a crackdown on dissenters.
The Death Penalty in America Is on the DeclineEight states have abandoned the death penalty in the last 15 years, and the number of new death sentences imposed nationwide each year has plummeted.
