Efforts to end the death penalty in Ohio have gained more support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in recent years. But it hasn’t been enough to get any bill across the finish line.

Arkansas currently only allows executions by lethal injection. If this bill becomes law, the state would join a small group ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough ...

Gov. Kay Ivey made Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sad. Not just somewhat sad but “ deeply saddened,” or so Marshall wrote in a letter to the governor after she commuted the death sentence of ...

Those who had been pushing for that clemency are also shocked the governor granted the first death sentence commutation in Alabama this century. Abraham Bonowitz with the group, Death Penalty Action.

Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...

Louisiana's nitrogen gas execution protocol hasn't been released to the public. "It relates to the most solemn … government ...

A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s execution protocol is a public record, in a case that could decide ...

Marshall, ever the political opportunist, instead chose to frame the governor’s decision as an affront to his authority ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin Meyers, a first for her time in office and the first commutation ...