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 ...

new death sentences no longer replenish death-row populations. Executions, too, are happening less often. The number of annual Indiana death sentences peaked in the 1980s. It’s been on the ...

Today, 51 women are on death row, compared with more than 2,000 men. But for those women who do face capital sentencing, a particular kind of disadvantage based on their sex can arise: Although ...

Amanda Don Soultz, 32, of Elkhart, Indiana, previously pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of Fayette County resident ...

Roman Catholic Church leader, Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, has fully endorsed House Bill 1030 to abolish ...

There are now seven men on Indiana’s death row in Michigan City. That’s down from eight after state officials carried out an execution last year — the first since 2009.