Because if Biden’s federal death row commutations had been based on principle—the principle that killing people, even people ...

Alabama conducted more executions in 2024 than any other U.S. state, a fact Attorney General Steve Marshall celebrated in a ...

On the front end of the Death Row pipeline, Alabama sentenced four people to death this year. Nationally, 26 people were ...

Nine states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah—carried out executions this ...

John Michael Legg was spared the possibility of a death penalty after he pleaded guilty Wednesday morning through an agreement with the district attorney to three counts of capital murder in the ...

The annual report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty found the state continues to execute and sentence to ...

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of ...

Florida conducted only one execution in 2024, although the number of new death sentences imposed by juries leads nation.

There was an uptick in death sentences handed down and death penalties carried out in 2024 over 2023 but it was also the 10th ...

Opponents of the death penalty had urged President Biden to take this step, given the number of executions that took place ...