Ivan Cantu was executed Feb. 28 by the state of Texas despite claims that the Texan's 2001 conviction for killing James Mosqueda and Amy Kitchen, his cousin and his cousin's fiancee, was based on false testimony.
In a statement issued through the progressive
Rev. Hood, a former hospital chaplain at a trauma center in Texas, was accustomed to attending at "incredibly visceral, intense deaths (from) motorcycle accidents and plane crashes."
Having accompanied other death row inmates to their execution -- while strenuously advocating for the end
The state of Alabama carried out the first known execution by nitrogen gas Jan. 25 after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal by death-row inmate Kenneth Smith, whose death took 22 minutes according to witnesses.
Smith unsuccessfully appealed to the federal
The Supreme Court Jan. 24 rejected an appeal by death-row inmate Kenneth Smith, whose planned execution by the state of Alabama -- the first known execution by nitrogen gas -- was openly decried by more than 100 Alabama faith leaders just days
Federal prosecutors said Jan. 12 they will seek the death penalty against the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022.
The convicted gunman, Payton Gendron, 20, was previously sentenced to life
Five years after Pope Francis updated the catechism to clarify the Catholic Church's teaching on the death penalty, there is "renewed momentum" in the United States to end the practice, a leading Catholic activist said.
Before he became Florida's sixth inmate to be executed in the state this year, convicted murderer Michael Duane Zack concluded his final statement Oct. 3 with a message: "To Governor DeSantis and the Clemency Board: I love you. I forgive you. I
At the beginning of the 10th month of 2023, Florida might execute its sixth death-row inmate of the year; a person whose lawyers and death penalty foes say has suffered from intellectual disabilities and carries a deep sense of remorse.
This year, Florida's
On June 16, after three weeks of hearing evidence, the jury found Robert Bowers — who committed the horrific mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 — guilty on 63 counts, including hate crimes resulting in death
A federal death sentence for the man convicted of a 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue marks the first such penalty sought for and won by the Biden administration, despite President Joe Biden's pledge as a candidate to end the practice