In the last two weeks, several major developments relating to the death penalty occurred across multiple states and they had one significant, yet surprising, thing in common: all of the efforts to ...

The Madhya Pradesh government intends to make a provision to slap the death penalty on those involved in the religious conversion of minor girls, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on the occasion of ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

Brad Sigmon chose to be the first person executed in the U.S. by firing squad in 15 years because he believed the ...

Nalgonda special court judge N. Roja Ramani, who awarded death sentence to the second accused in Pranay murder case, observed that ‘killing an innocent person for money was a menace to society’.

Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the killing.

Only three other defendants had been executed by firing squad in the country since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Sigmon’s execution was the sixth in the U.S. so far in 2025.

Adeyeye, while renewing calls for the death penalty against those dealing in ... They beat us mercilessly. The pictures are gory. Most of us had blood gushing out of our heads.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, issued a stay of execution for David Leonard Wood. Wood, 67, had been set to die Thursday over the killings of six girls and ...

Help Us End the Death Penalty' Brad Sigmon, a convicted murderer, was executed by firing squad in South Carolina, and used his last words to call for the abolition of the death penalty.