death penalty

No media were present when the execution took place early Tuesday morning.

Lawmakers and activists opposed to the death penalty say Hamden, Connecticut-based chemical supplier Absolute Standards, Inc., sold pentobarbital to the first Trump administration for 13 lethal injections in 2020 and 2021.

President Trump signed an executive order instructing justice officials to review the conditions of prisoners receiving clemency to ensure they reflect the "monstrous" crimes they committed.

The condemned man has exhausted his appeals but is likely to seek a clemency plea.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Trump administration will pursue death sentences against federal defendants “whenever possible.”

In his first address to Congress since returning to power, President Donald Trump is calling on lawmakers to expand the federal death penalty to include mandatory executions for murdering a police officer.

Lawmakers in Connecticut want to ban state companies from profiting off drugs used in federal executions, all of which are carried out in Indiana.

Faith leaders and a bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered Monday at the Statehouse to rally support for a measure to repeal Indiana’s death penalty.

Two mass clemency decisions contributed. But more prisoners leave death row after courts overturn their sentences. As a result, new death sentences no longer replenish death-row populations. Executions, too, are happening less often.

The bill, authored by state Rep. Robert Morris (R-Fort Wayne), would repeal the existing death penalty statute and commute the sentences of seven men currently on death row to life imprisonment without parole.