So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

DeWine, who has prevented executions from taking place in Ohio since 2019, has said he's preparing to reveal his personal ...

A majority of U.S. Catholics support the death penalty for convicted murderers in spite of Church teaching, according to a ...

DeWine has been consistently reluctant to carry out capital punishment. Might that culminate in historic policy shift before ...

A coalition of anti-death penalty groups has united to end capital punishment state by state and just as U.S. executions are ...

The U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a coalition of over 50 organizations, has been launched to abolish capital ...

Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences ...

Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday the federal government will resume capital punishment and will move forward with plans to execute five inmates on death row for the first time in more than 15 ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

The Church at large is giving serious thought to capital punishment. Church councils and denominational assemblies are making strong pronouncements against it. We are hearing such arguments as: ...