The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions Thursday, asserting ...

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, ...

As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S. Supreme Court's three ...

Alabama executed Anthony Boyd using nitrogen gas, a novel execution method criticized as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme ...

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 ...

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

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