The United States recorded its highest number of executions since 2009 in 2025, with 47 people executed across 11 states, as ...

The state of Alabama has joined a growing number of Republican-led states seeking to revive the death penalty for child rape, ...

Gov. Kelly Ayotte wants to bring back death penalty in New Hampshire, but a House committee recommended against it.

The bills aim to restore and broaden the use of capital punishment in New Hampshire, seven years after its repeal ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

Washington state’s Supreme Court abolished the death penalty on Thursday on the grounds that it was applied randomly and “in a racially biased manner,” thus violating the state’s constitution. With ...

Florida’s lawmakers have altered capital punishment sentencing multiple times over the past decade, with the latest changes making it easier for prosecutors to get death sentences and have them upheld ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

New Hampshire lawmakers are taking up a range of bills this month that would reinstate the use of the death penalty in the state, almost seven years after it was repealed. The proposals this year, all ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...