(RNS) — In the final hours of 2024, North Carolina’s outgoing governor, Roy Cooper, commuted 15 death sentences, reducing by 10% the fifth-largest death row in the country — 121 of the state’s ...

California has 592 people in prison who have been sentenced to death, the largest population of prisoners awaiting execution of any state. L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman is reversing the ...

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Opponents of the death penalty are bracing for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, fearing it will herald a new round of federal executions in an echo of the final months of the ...

September 17 - Utah prosecutors said on Tuesday they will seek the death penalty for the trade school student suspected of assassinating right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk. Below is a look at ...

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

Leroy McGill was sentenced to death in 2004 for a 2002 murder and arson in Phoenix. In Arizona, only first-degree murder with at least one aggravating factor is eligible for the death penalty. The ...

(London) – The Maldives government should withdraw plans to introduce a bill to end the longstanding moratorium on the death penalty in the country, 10 Maldivian and international human rights ...