As 2025 has come to an end, a new survey reveals that the U.S. has attained a record level of executions. According to The ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest request for a stay of execution. Victor Tony Jones was sentenced to death in ...

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for ...

UPDATE: House Bill 1030, which would've repealed the death penalty in Indiana, died without a committee hearing. Supporters were optimistic because the bill — unlike previous legislative efforts to ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long national decline in executions and provide federal ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment long banned in the state. That cooperation between the two entities, however, isn't as ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

Gvir’s proposed death penalty bill would, if enacted, place Israel on par with Iran as a top global executioner. This is a ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after Pam Bondi was sworn in as attorney general in the Oval Office. Bondi is ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous ...