Lethal injection has been the most common method used in the modern era by a wide margin, accounting for 1,492 executions.
The defense for Renesmay Eutsey's adoptive mother is fighting the death penalty as new testimony detailed the 9-year-old's condition before her death.
At its Justice Reimagined Awards and Celebration, the Catholic Mobilizing Network honored journalist Elizabeth Bruenig and Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley for their anti-death-penalty advocacy.
As a botched Tennessee execution renews death penalty scrutiny, this is what polls show about opinion on capital punishment.
A majority of Americans support the death penalty for people convicted of murder, but support becomes more divided when questions vary.
The 3rd District Court of Appeals cleared the way for prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Julio Montez Morris, accused in a witness-elimination murder.
When Christa Pike tortured and killed her classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995, support for the death penalty was near its peak in the United States.
The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one.
The show has since been cancelled, though the killing will proceed.
EXCLUSIVE: Twin murder victim Nick Dawson, who later met one of his brother Simon’s killers through restorative justice, tells the Daily Star he opposes the death penalty 'full stop' .