(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 ...

Death row timelines vary by jurisdiction, but the average time for Florida inmates is around 22.6 years, according to 2023 Bureau of Justice Statistics data. Florida’s average is in line with other ...

A growing number of Republican-led states are seeking to revive the death penalty for child rape. Alabama lawmakers approved legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death.

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 ...

From meals to showers to visitors, this is what life is like on Florida's death row for convicted killer Wade Wilson.

Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday signed the Child Predator Death Penalty Act. One of the governor’s top priorities this legislative ...

Alabama lawmakers approved a bill allowing the death penalty for child sex crimes. The bill heads to Gov. Kay Ivey's desk to be signed. What to know.

Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system—including near total isolation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high ...

A Utah man who had his execution blocked after developing dementia during his nearly 40 years on death row died of apparent natural causes, according to the state's Department of Corrections. Ralph ...

Corrections staff dismantle the death row lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2019 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on the state’s ...