Luigi Mangione back in court to fight death penalty
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(NewsNation) — The death penalty in the United States remains a critical topic, and it’s now become apparent states across the country are enacting different policies for what they see fit. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, lawmakers ...
Death penalty opponents in Tennessee got a jump on this year’s abolition efforts by urging the state to stop all executions in 2026.
The Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's 2023 capital sentencing law, rejecting constitutional challenges in two death penalty cases, Hunt v. State and State v. Jackson.
October 10, 2025, is the 23rd World Day Against the Death Penalty. It is also the date that the State of Indiana intends to execute Roy Lee Ward. Indiana state prison guards walk the perimeter of the Michigan City facility as preparations are made for the ...
First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for the Israeli embassy, a Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, a Ukrainian refugee,
Within hours of the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox began talking about pursuing the death penalty in the case. President Trump expressed his support for the move early on. It became official on Tuesday, Sept. 16. During a ...
USA Today reports that a Gallup poll released today found that 35 percent of Americans oppose the death penalty — the highest opposition since March 1972, when the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was constitutional unless it was applied unfairly.
WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — 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. Lawmakers in more than half of the ...
The year opened with the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life, where worshippers praised and thanked God "for the gift of human life in all its forms and at every stage" and ended with a new coalition of more than 50 organizations pledging to end the death penalty in the United States once and for all.
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