An Alabama Reflector analysis of executions in the state over the past decade shows five of the state’s 67 counties account for almost half of the total number of death sentences imposed since 2012.

I tried out ROBLOX Death Penalty – a dark and intense experience unlike anything I’ve played on the platform. In this video, I walk through the gameplay, the moral choices it throws at you, and how it ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider how states decide if a death penalty candidate is intellectually disabled. At issue is the case against Joseph Clifton Smith of Alabama.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the justices was how the lower courts ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...

The military junta in Burkina Faso has adopted a bill restoring the death penalty nearly a decade after the West African country abolished the heinous practice. The last known judicial execution in ...

In Hamm v. Smith, the Supreme Court will consider how IQ tests can be used to determine when an individual with an intellectual disability may be spared from the death penalty. Authors’ note: The ...

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 ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Georgia is preparing for its first execution of 2025, raising renewed questions about the use of the death penalty in the state. The execution is scheduled for Dec.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Aerial view of Djibo town, Burkina Faso, Feb. 18 ...