Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts consider...

The execution of a woman who claims she was wrongly convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter has been thrown back into legal limbo.

A Virginia man’s murder conviction has been vacated, freeing him after 25 years in prison, including over a decade on death row.

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Florida will account for nearly 60% of all U.S. executions this year if Harold Gene Lucas is put to death as scheduled Sept. 1.

In Oklahoma, Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Tremane Wood. In Alabama, Governor Kay Ivey granted clemency to Charles “Sonny” Burton, commuting his death sentence to life without pa...

Dozens of doctors and nurses have signed a letter to Tennessee’s governor asking him to pause all death row inmate executions until the state can prove it’s made improvements since the botched attempt...

About a dozen clergy and conservative politicians pleaded with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to postpone an upcoming execution after another inmate’s lethal injection was botched in May.

(The Center Square) – Faith leaders and some Republicans are calling on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to review execution protocols after attempts to put a man to death in May

Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison's execution chamber in 1999. AP Photo/Mark

A new report just released by Texas Defender Service shows that ninety-two percent of the death sentences sought by the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office since 2012 have been against people of...

You don't have to be stuck in a prison cell to feel trapped in your own life, but we can all turn adversity into insight, and no one knows this better than A...

People protesting against the scheduled execution of Tony Carruthers stacked boxes with signed petitions outside Gov. Bill Lee’s office door at the

Federal public defenders are calling out Frank Strada, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction.

The death penalty has evolved for nearly two centuries, but there’s only one real measure of progress: whether we finally choose to stop killing.

The death penalty has evolved for nearly two centuries, but there’s only one real measure of progress: whether we finally choose to stop killing.

A new report concludes Tarrant County is an “extreme outlier” in its unfair targeting of racial and ethnic minorities for the death penalty.

Oklahoma leads the nation in executions, but new bipartisan alliances are strengthening the movement to end capital punishment in the state.

Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort to end that practice.

Alabama’s attorney general pushes extreme execution methods and narrow legal arguments, testing constitutional limits and abandoning the restraint our founders expected.

A coalition of anti-death penalty groups has united to end capital punishment state by state and just as U.S. executions are surging.

During its inaugural press conference, representatives of the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty highlighted the uptick of executions in the South.

Citing a spike in executions across the country -- particularly in southern states like Florida -- a coalition of more than 50 organizations, including religious and conservative groups, have forged an alliance urging leaders to end capital punishment in the United States. On Wednesday, the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty hosted a webinar

“The individual remains sensate and experiences great distress as he or she slowly suffocates.”

The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death sentences.

Florida's governor and former Navy veteran, Ron Desantis, signed death warrants for seven veterans.

Support for the death penalty in the United States has dropped to its lowest point in over 50 years, with 44% of Americans now opposing it, according to a new Gallup poll.

Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.

An Akron law professor has been interviewing the architects and backers of Ohio’s 1981 death penalty law. They overwhelmingly want repeal.

Conservatives should oppose capital punishment because it violates pro-life values and the principles of transparent and limited government

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Acclaimed nov­el­ist and for­mer crim­i­nal defense lawyer John Grisham is set to release a new book titled *SHAKEN: The Rush to Execute an Innocent...

A Salinas reverend joins a statewide campaign, urging Gov. Newsom to commute death row sentences, citing moral concerns and risks of error.

A multi-faith coalition called on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to instead prioritize addressing poverty, health care, and other systemic issues.

Prejean, a prominent death penalty advocate, and others want the California governor to commute the sentence of every prisoner in the state condemned to die.

For Immediate Release: Thursday, September 4, 2025 Contact: Laura Burstein, Laura.Burstein@Squirepb.com Exonerated Individuals Release Letter Urging Relief for Robert Roberson, Innocent Father Sched...

Five veterans have been executed since Ron DeSantis became governor of Florida in 2019 with a sixth scheduled to die this month.

Florida has carried out nine executions so far this year — more than any other state.

The panel will explore historical racism in the death penalty, from its roots in lynching and racial terror, to its disparate use against Black and ma