With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.

Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State.

Note to readers •The Salt Lake Tribune is making this story about the Utah Legislature free to all. Donate to support our nonprofit newsroom. In Utah, death row inmates have been sitting in prison ...

After the DOJ released a memo to bring back firing squads as a form of capital punishment, Black inmates on death row are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Kay Ivey halted a scheduled Alabama execution by commuting Charles “Sonny” Burton’s sentence to life in prison without parole ...

The Utah Legislature is considering a bill with the intention of improving the state’s death penalty process, and if passed, could affect every death penalty case in the state, including the active ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman praised the General Assembly for overriding the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 251, ...

Missouri lawmakers are considering a bill to abolish the death penalty, citing its financial and human costs. The state's public defender system spends nearly $3 million annually on staff dedicated to ...