Catholic Mobilizing Network, a group that advocates for the abolition of capital punishment in line with Catholic teaching, urged its supporters to speak out against what it called a "regressive" ...

Experts say five executions being scheduled within one week is simply an anomaly that resulted from courts or elected ...

Alan Eugene Miller’s execution was the fifth in the last week, drawing national scrutiny to convictions and execution ...

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week. This was the first time in more than 20 ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

Miller was convicted of murdering three co-workers during two back-to-back shootings one morning in 1999 in suburban ...

Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:17 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He was one of four ...

"All the data indicates that the American public is increasingly uncomfortable with use of the death penalty, yet elected ...

Oklahoma was preparing to execute a man Thursday while waiting for Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt to decide whether to spare the ...

Oklahoma is set to execute Emmanuel Littlejohn in the murder of Kenneth Meers in a 1992 robbery that turned fatal. Littlejohn ...

The public reaction to McCaffrey's execution contributed to the success of a movement to end the death penalty in Wisconsin ...

Some progressives re-upped calls to abolish the death penalty, while conservatives lauded the execution for providing closure ...