Connecticut companies would be banned from selling drugs used in capital punishment under bill opposed by state hospitals.

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Lethal injection would remain the state’s primary ... convicted of first-degree murder in Idaho to be eligible for the death penalty. House Minority Leader Steve Berch, D-Boise, took the ...

When South Carolina restarted executions in September, the state established new procedures as they changed from three drugs for lethal injection ... to death since the death penalty was restarted ...

But attorneys for Sigmon and others facing execution have argued that the state has not provided enough information about lethal injection for people on death row to ensure that if they choose ...