Christa Pike remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Nashville hospital five days after the state of Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection on September 30. She remains hos...

Doctors in Tennessee are attempting to save the life of a woman whom the state just tried to kill.

Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime, is not humane and has no moral or medical basis

The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike, who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday, has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S.

Editorial: Three-quarters of nations have rightly abolished capital punishment in law or practice, but killing by the state has surged in the US

Konštantín Bauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CLT recently featured a translation of E.B. Pashukanis’ 1929 article “The Right of Asylum and

The last person to face the death penalty in Michigan was executed 88 years ago by the federal government.

The last British woman to be hanged, executed in 1955 for murdering her partner, ​on Wednesday had her sentence symbolically commuted to ‌life imprisonment by King Charles, on advice from the governme...

Departing Mike DeWine, who co-wrote state’s death penalty bill, says ‘I no longer believe [it] is a deterrent to murder’

The flag’s designer shares the story and inspiration for his design.

Ohio's Governor says that his state should end the death penalty. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, about why he changed his mind on a practice he once supported.

The school serves incarcerated people from ages 18 to 21, and they can earn GEDs or high school diplomas.

A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.

A prosecutor likened a Black murder suspect to a Bengal tiger. Decades later, the California Supreme Court found that trope showed unacceptable racial bias.

A dissent by 77-year-old Supreme Court Clarence Thomas in an Alabama death penalty ruling this week found two conservative justices siding with the minority liberal wing, and three other conservatives wanting nothing to do with his recommendations.According to a report from Slate, Thomas’s dissent a...

Justice Jackson: "I cannot understand the Court’s rush to extinguish [life], much less in the circumstances of this case." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs

Becerra, a front-runner for California governor, has a history of blocking police accountability and seeking to uphold the death penalty.

The 55-year-old man at the center of the case, who has been on death row for more than 2 decades, has IQ scores ranging from 72 to 78.

The technique allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved.

Trump has directed the Justice Department to "prioritize" seeking the death penalty in federal cases.

Pope Leo reiterated the Catholic Church's teaching that the death penalty is "inadmissible," in a video message released hours after the Justice Department said it would allow firing squads for federal executions.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 9, according to the Tribune’s archives.

A man on death row wanted DNA on evidence in his case tested. He was executed before the court made a ruling.

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

The bills aim to restore and broaden the use of capital punishment in New Hampshire, seven years after its repeal

In 2025, the United States saw a surge in executions after a period of decline. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 47 people were put to death in 11 […]

Charles "Sonny" Burton faces execution in Alabama for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot, even though Burton did not fire the gun or witness the killing.

Opponents of the death penalty turned out in big numbers in Concord again Thursday to speak against legislation to bring capital punishment back to New Hampshire.

Maricopa County prosecutors have frequently pursued the death penalty, but just 13% of cases ended in a death sentence, ProPublica and ABC15 Arizona found. Experts say the numbers raise questions abou...

Forty-seven men killed by states operating death penalty – almost double last year’s number

22 December 2025 | Index Number: MDE 23/0585/2025

As the state keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.

Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.