Capital Punishment
A Group of Lawyers Wants to Make Sure India’s Most Hated Criminals Aren’t Hanged
For Project 39A, there’s more to death row prisoners’ stories than that one alleged crime that earned them the fateful sentence.
Elite Student Sentenced to Death For Killing His Mother With a Dumbell
The then-20-year-old was on the run for years until he was captured at a Chinese airport.
2 Death Row Inmates Are Facing a Horrible Choice: Being Shot or Electrocuted
The state passed a law last month allowing executions by firing squad, but they haven’t actually assembled one yet.
Arizona Wants to Bring Back Zyklon B for Gas Chamber Executions
The state has reportedly ordered the ingredients necessary to make the deadly compound.
The State That Executed a Black Child Wants to Bring Back the Firing Squad
George Stinney Jr. was executed in 1944 when he was 14 years old.
Firing Squad or Electric Chair? That’s the Choice for Death Row Inmates in South Carolina.
A new bill is part of the wave of pro-capital punishment states looking to resume executions with archaic methods.
Alabama Is Trying to Go Through With a Potential Superspreader Execution
Willie B. Smith would be the first person put to death at the state level since July 8.
Brandon Bernard Was Just Put to Death In Trump's Unprecedented Push for Executions
His death marks the ninth federal execution this year.
Racism Tainted Julius Jones' Murder Conviction. He's on Death Row Anyway.
“I have spent the past 20 years on death row for a crime I did not commit, did not witness and was not at,” Jones, now 40, wrote in his 2019 commutation application.
Trump Is Trying to Bring Back Firing Squads
Allowing the federal government to use firing squads for executions is one of 36 "midnight regulations" the administration is trying to push through before Trump leaves office.
'Man Down!': Inside the Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak at San Quentin
How a massive outbreak at California's San Quentin State Prison spread to death row, killing a dozen condemned prisoners.
The Only Native American on Death Row Was Just Executed Without His Tribe's Consent
For 17 years, the Navajo Nation and the victim’s family have publicly objected to Lezmond Mitchell’s sentence.