In 2026, more than half of the United States still allows the death penalty as a sentence for those committing the most ...

Two executions on May 14 were the first in a series of five scheduled across the country over eight days.

In November 2022, Taylor Parker was sentenced to death for murdering Reagan Simmons-Hancock and kidnapping her unborn child. More than three years later, has a date been set for her execution? Parker, ...

The Marshall Project reports on the 50th anniversary of Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the U.S. death penalty with intended reforms.

Netflix’s June 2026 documentary Maternal Instinct has reignited public interest in one of the most disturbing crimes in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of Victor Saldaño, a Texas death-row prisoner whose lawyers and ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Texas executed its 600th inmate Thursday evening, administering a lethal injection to Edward Busby in Huntsville and reinforcing its status as the nation's leading death penalty ...

A federal appeals court upheld a Texas death row inmate's sentence, finding that state courts did not unreasonably allow ...

Texas brands itself as fiercely pro‑life on abortion. But with hundreds of executions, wrongful‑conviction scandals, and ...

Strapped to a gurney, moments from death, prisoners in Texas' execution chamber have been asked a solemn question for as long as the state has administered lethal injections: Do you have a last ...

Texas executed Edward Busby Jr. on May 14, marking a devastating milestone in our state’s history. Busby is the 600th person to be executed under Texas’ modern-day death penalty system. He was put to ...