States are turning to older and newer methods amid lethal-injection drug shortages, while public opinion on capital punishment shows complex shifts.
Toforest Johnson’s death penalty reduced to life in prison without parole over doubts about his conviction .
The case gained national attention after Andrea Shaw asserted that the children’s deaths were a result of vaccination reactions.
As Andrea Shaw, 23, awaits trial for the murder of her twins, a leading lawyer in the anti-vaccine movement has joined her defense team.
A majority of Americans support the death penalty for people convicted of murder, but support becomes more divided when questions vary.
The botched Tennessee killing has renewed discussion about the ethics of the death penalty ahead of the midterms.
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The botched execution of a woman in Tennessee and the controversy over the live broadcast of a firing squad execution have thrust the debate over the .
The jury in the death penalty trial of Alberto Sierra, the man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and her two young daughters, have started to receive their instructions from the judge .
Wright’s reporting initially resulted in a 20,000-word magazine story, “ The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’ Death Row ,” which ran in February 2025 in The New Yorker, where Wright is a staff .
Prosecutors in Idaho have steadfastly maintained that 23-year-old Andrea Shaw murdered her twin toddlers in the bed they shared.