When the history of Florida’s modern era of capital punishment is written, 2025 will be marked as a year that saw an unprecedented embrace of the death penalty. The state executed 19 prisoners this ...

Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, prosecutors say. Under California law, that makes him eligible for the death penalty.

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

The United States has seen a dramatic acceleration in state-sanctioned killings this year, reaching a total of 46 executions so far in 2025, a level not witnessed in more than a decade. This figure ...

Elizabeth Bruenig on witnessing U.S. executions and wrestling with mercy and justice Pulitzer finalist Elizabeth Bruenig recounts witnessing five executions over the past five years in her Atlantic ...

Penenden Heath is now a "nice country park" in Kent, but the land has a "dark history". Tour guide and amateur historian Shane Waterman told Secret Kent that executions took place at the site from at ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah death row inmate Ralph Menzies' execution by firing squad is just a month away. Utah's Board of Pardons and Parole will hold hearings next week to consider his request to commute ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of ...

Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla. in 2023. (Curt Anderson/AP) Richard Randolph, a man who was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his manager at a convenience store in 1988, was executed ...

On Oct. 15, Florida executed William Happ, a man who most agreed deserved little sympathy. Happ kidnapped 21-year-old Angela Crowley in 1986 from outside a convenience store in Crystal River and raped ...

Weeks after Arizona resumed executions following an eight-year pause in capital punishment, some social media users are claiming the state is using a controversial method to put certain criminals to ...