Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful ...

A bill to make death by firing squad the main method of execution in Idaho is moving to the Senate floor for a vote after passing the Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee on Wednesday afternoon.

Iran executed 975 people in 2024 in ‘horrifying escalation’ of death penalty, damning report says - At least 31 women and one child among those executed ...

A proposal designed to minimize the potential that Georgia executes someone with an intellectual disability unanimously ...