Death penalty

They were among 61 Oklahoma legislators calling for a new evidentiary hearing ahead of Glossip's September execution date..

Coddington is the first of 25 inmates whose execution dates were set last month after a federal judge rejected their challenge to Oklahoma's execution protocol.

The 50-year-old convicted murderer was executed, despite the children of his victim urging the state to spare his life.

James, 50, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1994 shooting to death of his ex-girlfriend Faith Hall.

The bill that was first introduced in February 2021 and is highly unlikely to become law has attracted fresh attention on social media this week.

The sentencing trial for the Parkland school shooter continued today.

The Parkland school shooter is facing the death penalty after pleading guilty to 17 counts of first-degree murder.

The pro-life fight continues, and we have the opportunity to sustain momentum, but this must be done with reverence for the totality of life.

Attorneys for the inmates had argued that the use of the sedative midoazolam violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Citing lethal drug supply issues, the governor's office has issued several delays to inmates.

Dixon, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence on May 11.

Clarence Dixon, 66, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for the 1978 killing of 21-year-old student Deana Bowdoin.

The 66-year-old is set to be the first inmate executed in Arizona in nearly eight years.

South Carolina faces legal challenges to its execution methods amid the state's plans to use a firing squad for the first time.

Citing four claims made by Lucio's attorneys, an appeals court sent the Texas mom's case back to a trial court two days before her scheduled execution.

James Irby, Buntion's victim, was a 37-year-old police officer with a wife and two young children when he was murdered during a traffic stop almost 32 years ago.

Lucio, who was convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter after the infant fell down the stairs, is set to be executed next week.

Buntion, 78, is scheduled to be executed on April 21 for the killing of a Houston police officer more than 30 years ago.

Retribution is not an effective way of managing basic criminals or mass murderers in society.

The notion "thou shall not kill" as a blanket statement morally doesn't work.

The Arizona Supreme Court set a May 11 execution date for Dixon, who was sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of an Arizona State University student.

Two GOP candidates sparred over legislation that could make abortion a capital offense.

Any decision to keep or do away with the symmetrical justice of the death penalty should be based on the merits of the practice itself.

South Carolina is now one of a small number of states that allows death by firing squad, joining Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah.

"I would restore the death penalty by hanging through military tribunal," one pundit said.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Tsarnaev's initial death sentence reversal was improperly managed due to potential juror questionnaire discrepancies.

"Lieutenant [Debra] Clayton impacted the lives of those around her throughout the City of Orlando," the Orlando Police Department said after the death sentence was handed down on her killer Thursday.

Markeith Loyd was sentenced to death in the 2017 killing of Orlando Police Lieutenant Debra Clayton after killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend.

A jury determined that a man should spend the rest of his life in prison after defense lawyers argued "he was not put in good soil."

Within a span of the last four months, the state has now executed four prisoners, one of which reportedly convulsed and vomited during his execution.