Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

Death penalty opponents in Tennessee got a jump on this year’s abolition efforts by urging the state to stop all executions ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has issued a reprieve for long-standing death row man Richard Roland Laird, extending the ...

ELON, N.C. — Update: On the deadline, Fri., Oct. 3, Gov. Josh Stein signed Iryna's Law. The clock is ticking on the fate of capital punishment, in a controversial bill Gov. Josh Stein has until Friday ...

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

Earlier this month, Florida executed Michael Bell for murdering two people in 1993. He was the eighth person put to death there this year. Bell’s execution would have attracted little attention but ...