A jury listened to a child's murder. Will they give the death penalty?

A Texas jury will soon decide whether a delivery driver who admitted to kidnapping and killing a 7-year-old girl will face ...

Opinion - Time is running out for Gov. DeWine to take a side on the death penalty

Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State.
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Florida Supreme Court Reinstates Death Sentence For Leo Kaczmar III

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a lower court’s decision to vacate the death sentence of Leo Louis Kaczmar III, ordering that his sentence for the 2008 murder of Maria Ruiz be ...
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Executions Spiked in 2025, but the Death Penalty Is Still Losing Ground

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 ...

Will Demorris Hunter be given the death penalty? Jury to deliberate as defense offers character witnesses

A jury has yet to decide if a man convicted of several murders across the country should be given the death penalty.
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‘Attack on the rule of law’: State defends death sentence for inmate who killed police officer

Manchester Police Chief Peter Marr shakes hands with Assistant Attorney General Audriana Mekula at an appeal hearing for Michael Addison at the New Hampshire Supreme Court in Concord on March 26, 2026 ...

Brevard’s death row is shrinking as executions accelerate

With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.
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Missouri bill to abolish the death penalty gets hearing for the first time in years

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ ...