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

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

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in which predecessors explicitly decided against seeking ...

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

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly a year ago, Gov. Mike DeWine suggested to a room full of reporters that he was preparing to make some sort of announcement about Ohio’s broken-down death penalty system. “We’ve ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The 2026 legislative session is more than five months away, but lawmakers are already filing bills they say should take priority. Rep. Matt Simpson (R-District 96) has ...

Referred to as a “hotspot of capital prosecution,” Washington County was the primary focus of a panel discussion hosted by an anti-death penalty group Tuesday morning. The Philadelphia-based Atlantic ...

Gov. Mike Braun this week implied he was open to debate on whether Indiana should end the death penalty, after telling reporters the state had run out of the drug used in two recent executions. “We’ve ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has had an eye on restoring the death penalty since his 2023 election. Last year, the state’s top law enforcement official filed a motion to supersede a court ...