As 2025 has come to an end, a new survey reveals that the U.S. has attained a record level of executions. According to The ...

As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest request for a stay of execution. Victor Tony Jones was sentenced to death in ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...

John Koch, a radio reporter, witnesses every execution in Florida to keep close tabs on what he considers one of the most ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...

Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The ...

Thirty-five men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, including one early Friday, with seven others scheduled to be put to death later this month. The total for 2025 ...

The annual number of death row inmates executed in the U.S. is set to nearly double by the end of this year. In 2024, 25 death row inmates were executed, according to the Death Penalty Information ...

Twenty-nine men have died this year by court-ordered execution in the United States, and that number is set to rise on Thursday as Florida prepares to execute 59-year-old Curtis Windom via lethal ...

At a Cabinet meeting on Aug. 26, President Donald Trump proposed seeking the death penalty for anyone convicted of murder in Washington, D.C., claiming the death penalty is “a very strong preventative ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump has been forthright about his intention to bring about a death-penalty renaissance, and now his ...