DeWine, who has prevented executions from taking place in Ohio since 2019, has said he's preparing to reveal his personal ...

While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year ...

South Carolina's execution of Stephen Bryant has reignited debate over the use of the firing squad, which is authorized in ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

The increase in state-sanctioned killings, concentrated in just a few states, is a terrifying measure of the political ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.

Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen ...

Florida has executed more prisoners on death row in a single year than any other state in the US - Governor Ron DeSantis ...

The groom who lost his wife in a deadly crash hours after marrying her has reached the final settlement in the wrongful death ...

On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-five people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...

Harold Wayne Nichols confessed to killing Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old college student, as well as raping several other women ...