Veterans receiving the death penalty continues to be a controversial issue and 2025 is shaping up to be one of the deadliest ...

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, just hours after being ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with serious mental illnesses from being executed. Nine people have been removed from death row, with 25 cases still pending. Some death row inmates have ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and a firsthand account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here.

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...