Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, faces either life imprisonment or the death ...

Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The 2025 Capital Crimes report from the Ohio Attorney General is out, and even though a state ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday issued his strongest rebuke to date of Ohio’s years-long moratorium on ...

A judge ruled Friday that Tennessee prison officials must grant expanded access to media members to view state-run executions, after a coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press ...

A man found guilty of the murder of a 70-year-old store owner was put to death on Tuesday in Florida, marking the state's second execution this year after a record-setting 19 executions in 2025.

Florida is in the middle of a record pace of executions. That pace is holding up other court cases and preventing attorneys from properly representing death-penalty clients.

COLUMBUS, Ohio—For Ohio to resume executions, state lawmakers would need to pass a “shield law” to prevent pharmaceutical companies from discovering that their drugs were used in lethal injections, ...

DeSantis also pushed for — and got — the lowest death penalty sentencing threshold in the nation. Florida requires the vote ...

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