Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four Florida inmates, three of which spent over 30 years on death row, according to the Florida Department of Corrections, have ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – The moral divide over the death penalty played out in Florida this week in a remarkably personal and unusual display, as the state executed its first prisoner of 2026. Florida executed ...

The Justice Department also said it was reviving a lethal injection protocol used during President Donald Trump’s first term.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades-long dormant policy allowing the federal government's use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the ...

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for the global abolition of the death penalty, coinciding with the US administration’s move to expand federal execution methods, including firing squads and the ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WTVM) - The third day of jury selection in the Ibraheem Yazeed capital murder trial offered the clearest picture yet of how Macon County residents view the death penalty, an issue ...

In the last 50 years, the U.S. has put more than 1,600 people to death, but only about 1 percent of those executed have been women. That’s not because of lingering cultural stereotypes, but because, ...

Despite constitutional flaws, judges may opt not to strike down entire measure, especially as some surmise its extreme ...