When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has ...

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the ...

Melissa Lucio remains on death row in Cameron County, Texas, nearly four years after her scheduled execution was halted and ...

Pursuit of a remote-operated system to carry out the death penalty has been unsuccessful to date as the prison preps for a ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...

Pennsylvania House Bill 99 and House Bill 888 supporters argue that capital punishment is costly, inconsistently applied and ...

Pennsylvania has a moratorium on the death penalty. Now there’s a push to abolish it altogether. Two bills that would do that ...

"The Catholic Church has consistently taught that each human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, is ...