Without Florida, the national execution rate would be like an average year, with fewer than 30 executions across the country.

Defense attorneys, Inger Chandler, left, and Ana Paula Funes-Baker, right, comfort Tony Earls after his sentencing of 20 ...

Prosecutor Nathan Hochman is playing politics by floating the death penalty for the murders of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer ...

Peter Navarro’s appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction may seem, to some, unnecessary. Last year, fresh out of ...

Online, in print, and on radio and TV — we examined Trump administration orders, immigration detention, deaths behind bars ...

Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump ...

Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort to end that practice.

Even as more state leaders try to expand capital punishment, fewer jurors are choosing it.

FILE – The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. Texas continued a long-term downward trend in capital punishment in ...

An Alabama Reflector analysis of executions in the state over the past decade shows five of the state’s 67 counties account for almost half of the total number of death sentences imposed since 2012.

A Georgia death row inmate has requested a greasy, calorie-laden feast for his last meal ahead of his scheduled execution next week. Stacey Humphreys was scheduled to die by lethal injection the night ...

PALESTINE, Texas — Dates have been set for hearings where evidence will be considered in the case of East Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson. On Friday, both the state and Roberson's defense team ...