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Remembering America's 'Angel of Death Row'

By David Von Drehle

Arkansas Is Preparing for Double Lethal Injections

By Josh Sanburn

Arkansas Executions: What's Next for the Inmates Who Were Scheduled to Die

By Josh Sanburn

Arkansas Lawyers Scramble to Defend 7 Death Row Inmates at Once

By Josh Sanburn
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Death Penalty Slowly Fading Away Across the U.S.

2016 continued the decline in death sentences and executions

By Josh Sanburn

The Drug Used in Alabama’s Problematic Execution Has a Controversial History

Midazolam has been criticized for not properly making inmates unconscious

By Josh Sanburn

Nebraska Restores the Death Penalty

The effort was bankrolled by the state's governor

By Josh Sanburn

Oklahoma Votes to Add Death Penalty to Its Constitution

It's the first state to provide constitutional protections for capital punishment

By Josh Sanburn

Death Penalty's Future Will Be Decided in 3 States

Here's what you need to know

By Josh Sanburn

Duterte Wants to Restore the Death Penalty

Police could also be given shoot-to-kill powers

By TIME Staff

Indonesia Readies More Foreign Inmates for Execution

"There will not be a ‘soap opera’ about it this time,” the Chief Security Minister says

By Yenni Kwok

Vietnamese Inmate Gets Pregnant to Avoid Death Penalty

Under Vietnamese law, pregnant women can't be executed

By Nash Jenkins

U.S. Executions Hit Lowest Level in Two Decades

The number of death sentences declined by one third in the past year

By Josh Sanburn

Oklahoma Used Wrong Drug in Lethal Injection

Wrong drug used during January execution

By Josh Sanburn

Oklahoma Asks Court to Delay Executions

The state says it received the wrong drug

By Josh Sanburn

Supreme Court Justice Defends Foreign Citations on Death Penalty

Should the Supreme Court care that other countries have abolished the death penalty? That looming question animates Justice Stephen Breyer's "The Court and the World," a brisk but academic book that argues that it is...

By Ryan Teague Beckwith

Most of India's Execution Records 'Lost or Destroyed by Termites'

The absence of information shows the "callousness" of the record-keeping system, according to researchers

By Nash Jenkins

Search for Execution Drugs Continues

States still have problems with controversial sedative

By Josh Sanburn

Supreme Court OKs Lethal Injection Drug

The sedative was used in a series of executions widely considered botched

By Josh Sanburn

Which State Will Be Next to Abolish the Death Penalty?

Several more are primed to repeal capital punishment

By Josh Sanburn
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