Yug, who was abducted from his courtyard in busy Ram Bazaar in the heart of the town on June 14, 2014, was tortured and ...

In this week's Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent recaps a major death penalty case that came before the high court as well as the shenanigans of a man who’s angling to be the next ...

So far, 11 states have carried out 45 executions this year, nearly double the number in 2024, even as public opinion ...

The Catechism, per the 2018 revision, states that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the ...

DeWine, who has prevented executions from taking place in Ohio since 2019, has said he's preparing to reveal his personal ...

On November 10, 2025, right-wing Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir proposed a bill that would use the death penalty to punish Palestinian terrorists convicted of killing Israeli citizens. Some Knesset ...

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied ...

The Senate’s fresh move to impose the death penalty for kidnapping and banditry has sparked a nationwide debate, drawing ...

The Supreme Court weighed arguments over how multiple IQ tests should be considered when evaluating whether an inmate should not be executed.

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...