Mexico is influencing hundreds of death row cases in the U.S. as it struggles to keep a lid on cartel violence — and paying ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the door on Raymond Bright’s latest attempt to escape death row, upholding his two death sentences for the brutal 2008 hammer slayings of two Jacksonville ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...

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 ...

Veterans receiving the death penalty continues to be a controversial issue, and 2025 is shaping up to be one of the deadliest years on record for former servicemembers being executed. Based on a new ...

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for the Israeli embassy, a Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, a ...

Protesters call for an end to the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 3, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Jason Reed, Reuters The U.S. system of capital punishment operates ...

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In late November, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not seek the death penalty in the prosecution of Yordanis Cabos-Martinez, the man accused of beheading his ...