Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman is drawing a line on death row. On Wednesday, he warned that Republicans would "vigorously" resist any move to abolish the state’s death penalty if Gov. Mike DeWine ...

Florida Supreme Court Justice Gerald Kogan was distraught. The court’s harsh rules compelled him to agree to an impending execution he thought was unjust. He wrote a concurring opinion that was a cry ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the justices was how the lower courts ...

If I had to use one word to describe the ethos of the courtroom last week, it was a simple one — sad. The 80-year-old defendant, a man who’s been on death row for half a century, was slight, slumped ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

Charles "Sonny" Burton, an Alabama man on death row, is scheduled for execution next month. Gov. Kay Ivey officially set the execution window for between midnight Thursday, March 12, and 6 a.m. the ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro issued his first death penalty reprieve earlier this month, as advocates for abolishing capital punishment say the political winds continue to shift slowly in their favor. The ...