That Williams was executed is an American tragedy, but he is not alone. The American death penalty system has shown itself to ...

The death penalty fails to deliver true justice or enhance safety. Instead, it operates as a form of politically motivated ...

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man on Thursday for his role in the 1992 fatal shooting of a convenience store ...

It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man,” Clint Eastwood’s grizzled gunslinging character mused in the 1992 western classic ...

Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people – Amber McLaughlin, ...

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has a reputation for being informed, articulate and all but unflappable.

Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and ...

President Joe Biden should make good on his campaign pledge to abolish executions on the federal level. States should do ...

Five death row inmates were put to death in the US over the past week, a pace unprecedented since July 2003. With the deaths ...

The execution—one of a recent spate across several states—has raised questions about the future of the death penalty in ...