In 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed death warrants for 19 people, nearly 4 times as many as any other state. List of executions ...

The near-100% increase in executions was driven in large part by Florida, which at 19 executions counted for about 40% of the ...

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for ...

Alabama plans to execute Charles “Sonny” Burton, a man who did not kill my father.

Alabama is considering significant changes to its death penalty laws with the introduction of two new bills. HB70 seeks to ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...

At first glance, 2025 was not a very good year for the movement to end the death penalty in the United States. The number of executions carried out this year nearly doubled from the previous year.

Since Trump took office, officials have transferred ten of the 37 men Biden spared from execution to the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." One prisoner still awaiting transfer has attempted suicide.

Since 1989, John Koch has been present at the execution of every person sentenced to death in his home state, which this year reached a record high at 19 ...

Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.