Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Record number of executions in Saudi Arabia and drugs crackdown in Iran offset broader global trend away from capital punishment ...

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, Oct. 3 to ...

Corrections staff dismantle the death row lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2019 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on the state’s ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state has changed its method of execution from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system, according to paperwork filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court. The ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have ...

California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of ...

An inmate on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh works on a letter in a common area in one of the four pods on death row in 2004. Inmates on death row wear red to signify they are on death row.