States put to death 47 people last year, double the recent norm. What’s behind the rise?

Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, faces either life imprisonment or the death ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Myth 6: Some botched executions in which we know the inmate suffered excruciating pain could have been prevented by a better protocol. Seven executions listed on the Death Penalty Information Center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask ...

A federal judge in Ohio has rejected the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol on the grounds that one of the drugs, the sedative midazolam, is not sufficiently humane in its effects. The drug ...

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday said the botched execution of a murderer in Oklahoma raises questions about implementation of the death penalty and will ask the U.S.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story is published in partnership with The Florida Trib. In a small, piercingly ...