The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

On a cold, wet November morning in 1972, Roger Bontems was marched to the guillotine for complicity in two murders, neither ...

For a long time, that has been the case with the role of race in America’s death penalty system. It is by now well documented that from start to finish—from charging decisions to jury selection, ...

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...

Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro was asked for her reaction to two letters Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins sent urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s ability to carry ...

A Senate subcommittee advanced this year’s proposal to reinstate the death penalty in Iowa in cases where a person is found guilty of the intentional killing of a peace officer.

Lawmakers will discuss a package of immigration bills, including the highest penalty for those convicted of offenses such as ...

But under a capital punishment system where rules are broken ... the site where the convicts would be hanged, and the facts of their crimes. But the ministry has not revealed how it determines ...

Yet often, courts have found a way to ignore or dismiss those unpleasant facts in their capital punishment jurisprudence. Following a notorious 1987 Supreme Court precedent, McCleskey v.