SCI Rockview, Pennsylvania’s first State Correctional Institution to contain a “death house,” could close down soon after ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

House lawmakers will soon decide whether to ditch lethal injection as the state’s primary execution method in favor of the ...

Idaho House lawmakers quickly – and relatively quietly – adopted a bill making the firing squad the state’s primary execution ...