The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill Tuesday that would allow firing squad executions for death ...

HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – A bill has been introduced in the Indiana General Assembly that will allow the death penalty to be ...

Hamilton County prosecutors said they are no longer pursuing the death penalty against Rodney Hinton, the man accused of ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s position on the death penalty stands out in comparison to politicians who use capital ...

Death penalty opponents in Tennessee got a jump on this year’s abolition efforts by urging the state to stop all executions ...

Florida’s record execution spree in 2025 drove a sharp national uptick: Executions nearly doubled nationwide from 2024.

In 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed death warrants for 19 people, nearly 4 times as many as any other state. List of executions ...

The near-100% increase in executions was driven in large part by Florida, which at 19 executions counted for about 40% of the ...

In response to the August murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, House Bill 307, later titled “Iryna’s Law,” was proposed in the state legislature and became law less than two weeks later.

Since then, the state has killed seven men in around 15 months. As 2025 comes to a close, South Carolina executed five men on ...

Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.