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. Lawmakers ...

Two British drug convicts including a grandmother on death row left a Bali jail on Thursday, as part of a deal to send them ...

“It costs close to a quarter million (dollars) for one dose,” Dr. John Feczko, a pathologist who performed the state’s autopsies on Corcoran, Ritchie and Ward, said in an interview with the Indiana ...

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not clear when the state will carry out another. Five men remain on Indiana’s ...

Nancy Pelosi, former House speaker, to retire from Congress after this term ...

The history of capital punishment in Indiana is long, twisting and beset by problems. The process that led to the early-morning Oct. 10 execution of Roy Lee Ward at the Indiana State Prison in ...

Inside the death chamber at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. INDIANAPOLIS — After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment ...

Farmers for Free Trade, a nonprofit that advocates lower tariffs and expanded markets, wrapped up its 2,800-mile motorcade ...

Editor's note: This database contains descriptions of violent crimes. There are 113 people sitting on Ohio's death row. Some were sentenced to death decades ago, for murders committed in the 1980s and ...

Ohio has not carried out an execution since 2018, creating a de facto moratorium under Gov. Mike DeWine. State lawmakers are at an impasse over whether to abolish capital punishment or authorize new ...