South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

There are 40 federal inmates on death row whose executions were put off under the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium on ...

South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

Although increased litigation costs are the largest reasons for the expense of the death penalty, they are not alone. | ...

A perennial bill to abolish Ohio’s death penalty got another hearing Wednesday morning, but there’s little time left for it ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

The Japanese government on Thursday ruled out abolishing the death penalty, rejecting calls by domestic legal experts for a ...

He also urged President-Elect Donald Trump to execute the notorious Boston Marathon bomber as one of the first acts of his ...

Lawyers for four S.C. inmates asked justices to postpone executions until after Christmas and New Year’s. The top court may be doing that.

ANKARA – Japan on Thursday ruled out ending the death penalty, spurning local and international pressures, including calls by ...