Alabama
Alabama's upcoming gas execution could harm witnesses and staff
The state of Alabama plans to execute a prisoner in January using nitrogen hypoxia, a process so novel and un…
The state of Alabama plans to execute a prisoner in January using nitrogen hypoxia, a process so novel and un…
Inside the push to persuade Cooper to commute the death sentences of 136 people before he leaves officeEvery …
Harris County, Texas, is the death penalty capital of the country. In most cases resulting in a death sentenc…
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Could the death penalty look a lot different in Louisiana in the coming year?Republ…
In this month’s episode of Discussions with DPIC, Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with John Bessler, …
As one of only five states that executed people this year—and one of only seven states that sentenced people …
The inmate was charged with attempted murder and has been transferred to a different corrections facility in …
Texas and Florida accounted for more than half of the executions this year, with Florida putting six inmates …
Oklahoma executed Phillip Hancock on November 30, 2023, following Governor Kevin Stitt’s rejection of the Okl…
Last Friday, the Death Penalty Information Center issued its year-end report. The message is mixed.The report…
Innocence cases dominated much of the media’s attention on death penalty cases in 2023. While these prisoners…
Against a backdrop of high-profile innocence cases and the U.S. Supreme Court’s seeming indifference to them,…
According to data analyzed by the DPIC, 79% of the death row inmates executed in 2023 had some disability or …
The Florida governor approved the executions of six people this year, and the state imposed five new death se…
Execution went ahead despite Board of Pardon and Parole granting clemency to the condemnedA 59-year-old man w…
Since its advent more than 40 years ago, lethal injection has become by far the most common method of enactin…
Elwood Hubert Jones was scheduled to be executed at 10 am local time, on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. His exe…
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections was preparing Wednesday to carry out the state's 11th execution si…
There’s still no decision on whether the federal government will seek the death penalty for the man who shot …
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by anot…