The Missouri House has given initial approval to legislation that stops a judge from sentencing someone to death in cases in which the jury is deadlocked on punishment. The Missouri House is moving ...

RAIFORD, Fla. – The moral divide over the death penalty played out in Florida this week in a remarkably personal and unusual display, as the state executed its first prisoner of 2026. Florida executed ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Legislature is considering a bill with the intention of improving the state's death penalty process, and if passed, it could affect every death penalty case in the state.

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 in 2025, nearly double the years prior.

A North Carolina woman accused of poisoning her daughter and others during Thanksgiving will not face the death penalty, ...

Missouri is one of two states where, if a jury is deadlocked on whether to sentence someone to death, the judge can issue the death penalty. The bill also establishes an automatic record-clearing ...

Rights groups are investigating the death of Ali Rahbar as a potential extrajudicial killing. Iran denies executions have taken place. Ali Rahbar, a gym coach, in a photograph from social media.Credit ...

Former Ohio State linebacker Darron Lee is charged with first-degree murder in Tennessee. The charges against Lee are eligible for the death penalty under Tennessee law. Prosecutors have not yet ...

Florida's first execution of 2026 was carried out on Ronald Palmer Heath, who was convicted of a 1989 murder. Heath was pronounced dead by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the death warrant for Michael King, who was convicted of the 2008 kidnap, rape, and murder of Denise Amber Lee. Lee's case, which included her own 911 call from her abductor's ...