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 ...

Dec. 15 (UPI) --The United States had the highest number of executions in about 15 years this year due to an increase in Florida despite historically low support for the form of punishment, the Death ...

Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade. The number of death row inmates executed across the U.S. spiked dramatically ...

A federal judge declined to halt the Dec. 17 execution of Stacey Humphreys, convicted of killing two real estate agents in 2003. Humphreys argued a COVID-era agreement delaying some executions should ...

US executions have nearly doubled in 2025 compared to 2024, with Florida executing more prisoners in 12 months than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI). This increase ...

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Protesters call for an end to the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 3, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Jason Reed, Reuters The U.S. system of capital punishment operates ...

An Austin-based tech mogul with a growing politically-adjacent profile is calling for the return of public executions in the United States. The controversy began after Claire Lehmann, a contributing ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The execution of a Georgia man scheduled for Wednesday has ...

A man convicted of stabbing a woman to death during a home invasion robbery more than 30 years ago was executed Tuesday evening in Florida. Asked if he had any last words, Geralds addressed someone by ...

A Florida death row inmate convicted of murdering Tressa Pettibone during a home invasion in 1989 was executed on Tuesday. Mark Allen Geralds, 58, was given a three-drug injection at the Florida State ...