A few weeks before publicly calling for Ohio to abolish the death penalty, Gov. Mike DeWine quietly commuted a death sentence ...

A conservative federal judge on Wednesday took the position that despite a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring the death ...

The Kansas death chamber is a small room with one-way windows so witnesses and the executioner can see in but the inmate can't see out.

DeWine's call to end Ohio's death penalty highlights a growing divide as states abolish, pause or continue executions.

Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...