death penalty

Wesley Purkey was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, the second federal execution this week after a 17-year hiatus. The high court's 5-4 decision allowed the execution to proceed.

Daniel Lee, 47, was put to death on Tuesday morning in the federal death chamber in the first federal execution since 2003. Other inmates are scheduled for death this week.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has barred the lethal injections that were scheduled to commence on Monday, citing the likelihood of "extreme pain and suffering." A legal conflict is likely.

Four men are scheduled to be executed in the coming weeks, which would be the first use of the federal death penalty since 2003.

In two weeks, two Texas executions have been stopped by the courts. On Monday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the Thursday execution of Mark...

From Texas Standard : On Tuesday, a new Texas Department of Criminal Justice policy went into effect, banning any religious adviser from being in the...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Kansas death row inmate who claims the state unconstitutionally abolished his right to...

The state has only executed one person since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976: Gary Lee Davis in 1997.

Studies have shown that Texas prosecutors chose to pursue the death penalty more often when a defendant was black than if a defendant was white. And...

From Texas Standard . Texas is re-upping a request to “opt in” to a federal law that would speed up the execution appeals process in the state,...