With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.

A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first execution by that method was carried out in the state. A new report that analyzes the application of capital punishment in America found that 2023 marked a 20-year low in the number of states that carried out executions and imposed new death sentences,

A Pennsylvania House committee on Monday passed a pair of bills that would abolish capital punishment in the commonwealth, potentially ending decades of limbo in which death sentences have been handed down but not carried out.

Last year, Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis executed more death row inmates than any other state. Florida is on a similar pace this year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four Florida inmates, three of which spent over 30 years on death row, according to the Florida Department of Corrections, have been executed this year alone. Just three weeks ago, Billy ...

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families to relive their trauma. An effort to abolish the ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont man, who was facing potential death penalty sentences in the fatal shooting of two Western Massachusetts men, has accepted a plea bargain that will provide him consecutive life terms in prison. Theodore “Theo” Bland, 30 ...