A convicted murderer killed my coworker at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The death penalty would have kept him ...

Accountability that is endlessly deferred, arbitrarily applied and disconnected from healing does not bring peace.” ...

The family of a Tennessee death row inmate, whose execution was halted because of problems inserting an IV, has filed a complaint, accusing the doctor of violating ethics after the failed execution ...

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After South Carolina’s Supreme Court reversed Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder conviction and life sentence last week, the state’s attorney general, Alan Wilson, said the death penalty is “on the table” ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio—While Gov. Mike DeWine has come out against capital punishment, Ohioans holding or running for key offices to shape the future of the state’s death penalty support keeping it, if not ...

Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...