The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

One proposal would allow those sentenced to death before a 2017 law change to be resentenced. The other would put capital ...

Alabama is considering significant changes to its death penalty laws with the introduction of two new bills. HB70 seeks to ...

Florida accounted for 19 of the executions in 2025. Alabama, Texas and South Carolina each had five. This year, Alabama continued its use of nitrogen executions and another state — Louisiana — ...

Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...

But just as anti-death penalty Germans should be discussing and implementing ways to regulate, reduce, maybe even completely ...

A DeKalb County judge will take up several issues in a January hearing regarding how the trial will be conducted for a woman accused of kidnapping and forcing a ...

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

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states to condemn those with borderline ...

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied Alabama law, which allows judges to consider “evidence of intellectual ...