Outrage around the school shooter’s sentence reveals tensions between what some victims’ families want and the justice system’s limits.

Texas plans to execute Gonzales this week even though the expert witness says he isn’t a ‘threat to society.’

As Roe v. Wade ends, a look back at how the court reversed itself on capital punishment — spurring an anti-death penalty movement.

With a scarcity of lethal injection drugs, South Carolina has brought back an archaic execution method. In other states, men on death row are asking for it.

The case of Rodney Reed — whose innocence claims were championed by the reality TV star — raises questions about celebrities’ role in the criminal justice system.

“I don’t understand trying to kill somebody who is already dying,” says the sister of Idaho death-row prisoner Gerald Pizzuto.

A growing number of conservative lawmakers want to overhaul capital punishment, or end it.

The men arrested in recent killings in Atlanta, Boulder, Colorado, and Orange, California, could face very different sentences if convicted.

Biden vowed to end the death penalty. A recent court filing suggests where he might start.

The Marshall Project tracked every execution in America for more than five years. For condemned people, the path to death grew longer, more winding and erratic.