According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

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

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi will push to end the weaponization of the legal system; lift the death penalty ban; and ...

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBNG) - A federal judge is set to hold a hearing to discuss the use of the death penalty against the Tops grocery store mass shooter. In May of 2022, Payton Gendron, 18 at the time of ...

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man ...

A federal judge in Buffalo has ruled that a hearing will be held later this year to determine whether the 19-year-old Tops ...

U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo has suggested the end of May as the start time for hearings from the prosecution and ...

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