Attorney General Pam Bondi wants the most extreme punishment possible for Mangione after he was charged with murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a bridge too far—for most of the justices, anyway.

A gun case and a death penalty case are among those on the docket—with zero sign that the conservative majority cares about the court’s falling reputation.

Kamala Harris has suddenly gone silent on whether or not she supports capital punishment.

The Lone Star State GOP wants to make abortion punishable by death.

The infamous Project 2025 includes a plan to purge prisons.

He has the evidence on his side, but the high court usually can’t be dissuaded from upholding a death penalty conviction.

Jimmie Duncan is on death row in Louisiana based on fraudulent science—but that might not matter if the state’s governorship flips this fall.

Palmetto State women may soon be free of the fear of execution, as a treat.

While our reliance on capital punishment continues to decline, this has only served to illuminate its increasing cruelty—and the incompetence of its practitioners.

In her final weeks in office, Oregon Governor Kate Brown called the death penalty “immoral” and commuted sentences for all 17 inmates on death row.

A pair of death penalty decisions reaffirms a sad fact about the high court: There is a majority of justices who want to keep the executions coming.

The court’s conservatives have pared back the Sixth Amendment’s protections so that it won’t impede the state’s ability to erroneously execute the innocent.

The soon-to-retire justice lost his fight to abolish the death penalty. His courage keeps alive the possibility that some future court might yet win.

The high court’s unusually generous predisposition to faith-based claims takes a back seat to Samuel Alito’s determination to end the “guerrilla war on the death penalty.”

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

The system failed to protect Montgomery as a child. It should be able to offer more now than merely a reprieve from execution.

A jury spared Calvin McMillan’s life, but a judge sentenced him to death anyway. Will the Roberts court save or condemn him?

A case out of Wisconsin reveals how fragile—and superficial—coalitions between anti-violence organizations and police really are.

The execution of Lezmond Mitchell, a Diné citizen, was a long, grisly test case about tribal sovereignty.