The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions Thursday, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological terror” and ...

As Alabama prepared to execute death row inmate Anthony Boyd with nitrogen gas, U.S. Supreme Court's liberal justices opposed ...

(Reuters) -As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S.

Prosecutors say they follow Ohio's death penalty law. But critics believe political pressure has driven disparities in cases ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

The death penalty is divisive. Support for and opposition to it is not as easy as political party or position. It is all over the map. There are people with firmly held convictions about crime and law ...

Christa Gail Pike, 49, will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years if her execution proceeds ...

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not ...

A recent child sex abuse case in South Florida is one of the first in the country to see a possible death sentence, raising ...

The bill can be broken up into three parts: mental health, capital punishment and pre-trial conditions. The hope is that at ...