Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly a year ago, Gov. Mike DeWine suggested to a room full of reporters that he was preparing to make some sort of announcement about Ohio’s broken-down death penalty system. “We’ve ...