James Broadnax's execution date is scheduled for April 30 in the state of Texas.

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

COLUMBUS (WJW) – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has postponed the executions of three more inmates on death row, including the man convicted of killing a 12-year-old boy in Warren more than 40 years ago.

Israel is debating the approval of a death penalty bill that targets Palestinians. Although the number of countries carrying out executions is declining, the total number of executions is on the rise.

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RAIFORD, Fla. – The moral divide over the death penalty played out in Florida this week in a remarkably personal and unusual display, as the state executed its first prisoner of 2026. Florida executed ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) — The Alabama Supreme Court has issued an order to carry out the sentence of death row inmate Charles Lee Burton. Burton was sentenced to death for the 1991 capital murder of ...

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

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