A group of lawyers who defend people facing capital punishment has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take extraordinary ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will host a press conference regarding a new bill dealing with the state’s death penalty. Marshall, who will be joined by Rep. Matt Simpson and Sen. April ...

Florida has executed more people than any other state this year and is on track to set new modern-day records.

Channel News Asia reported in mid-2025 that the Chinese government had confirmed the execution of the Chinese celebrity Zhang ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WBRC) - Two lawmakers in Alabama continue to push for the death penalty in certain sex crimes against children. Senator April Weaver and Representative Matt Simpson say the horrific ...

INDIANA – Indiana is set to execute Roy Lee Ward on October 10th for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss legislation aimed at ...

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the ...

Warco claims that Walsh then pressured him into producing a certificate that listed the death as a “homicide, with shaken ...

Their legislation, originally sponsored in the Alabama House in the 2025 regular session, would have given prosecutors ...

Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has prefiled House Bill 20, which calls for an expansion of possible capital punishment ...

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...