Attorneys for death row inmate James Broadnax filed an emergency appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals this week, ...

James Broadnax's execution date is scheduled for April 30 in the state of Texas.

The 2025 Capital Crimes report from the Ohio Attorney General is out, and even though a state execution hasn’t been carried ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

Ohio has executed 56 men since 1981 and vacated the convictions of 12 other men. Over the course of five decades, that’s a ...