The U.S. has seen 35 executions so far in 2025, with seven more scheduled for later this month. This year's total already ...

The sentence handed down for Nicholas Rossi, 38, was the first of two he faces after he was convicted separately of raping ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest request for a stay of execution. Victor Tony Jones was sentenced to death in ...

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum seeking to reinstate the death penalty in Washington, DC, ...

On Friday, Indiana put Roy Ward to death, the state’s third execution since December. He was a 53-year-old white man who had been convicted in 2002 of the rape and murder of a teenage girl.

The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an ...

Far-right minister declines to specify timeline for quitting government, says Netanyahu 'knows very well what will happen' if he doesn't comply with demands The post Ben Gvir says he gave PM deadline ...