Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In 2025, the United States saw a surge in executions after a period of decline. According to the Death Penalty Information ...

The three cases, unfolding within 24 hours, share a disturbing set of commonalities: fundamentally unfair sentencing proceedings, defendants whose severe mental illness, unaddressed childhood trauma ...

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...

Iran executed more than twice as many people last year as it did in 2024, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

In the wake of a botched execution, Tennessee public defenders are urging Gov. Bill Lee to extend a reprieve to all death row ...

Florida accounted for nearly half of US executions in 2025, according to Amnesty International’s new annual report on the worldwide surge.

Attorneys for Tony Carruthers urged Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to pause the state's death penalty days after executioners failed to place IV lines for Carruthers' lethal injection.

The use of the death penalty skyrocketed last year, with documented executions reaching a worldwide high not seen since 1981, a new report found. A majority of the increase came from Iran, where the ...