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

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

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

An Alabama lawmaker has filed bills to allow resentencing for some death row inmates and to amend the state constitution to ...

One proposal would allow those sentenced to death before a 2017 law change to be resentenced. The other would put capital ...

Florida accounted for 19 of the executions in 2025. Alabama, Texas and South Carolina each had five. This year, Alabama continued its use of nitrogen executions and another state — Louisiana — ...

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

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

At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a ...

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

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected two challenges to a 2023 law that allows judges to impose death sentences ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors ...