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Capital Punishment
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
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2016 continued the decline in death sentences and executions
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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
December 9, 2016
Nebraska Restores the Death Penalty
The effort was bankrolled by the state's governor
By Josh Sanburn
November 9, 2016
Oklahoma Votes to Add Death Penalty to Its Constitution
It's the first state to provide constitutional protections for capital punishment
By Josh Sanburn
November 8, 2016
Death Penalty's Future Will Be Decided in 3 States
Here's what you need to know
By Josh Sanburn
November 7, 2016
Duterte Wants to Restore the Death Penalty
Police could also be given shoot-to-kill powers
By TIME Staff
May 15, 2016
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
May 12, 2016
Vietnamese Inmate Gets Pregnant to Avoid Death Penalty
Under Vietnamese law, pregnant women can't be executed
By Nash Jenkins
February 17, 2016
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
December 16, 2015
Oklahoma Used Wrong Drug in Lethal Injection
Wrong drug used during January execution
By Josh Sanburn
October 8, 2015
Oklahoma Asks Court to Delay Executions
The state says it received the wrong drug
By Josh Sanburn
October 1, 2015
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
September 14, 2015
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
August 3, 2015
Search for Execution Drugs Continues
States still have problems with controversial sedative
By Josh Sanburn
June 29, 2015
Supreme Court OKs Lethal Injection Drug
The sedative was used in a series of executions widely considered botched
By Josh Sanburn
June 29, 2015
Which State Will Be Next to Abolish the Death Penalty?
Several more are primed to repeal capital punishment
By Josh Sanburn
May 28, 2015
Why the End of Capital Punishment Is Near
Bungled executions. Backlogged courts. And three more reasons the modern death penalty is a failed experiment
By David Von Drehle
May 28, 2015
Saudi Arabia Is Looking For Executioners
How long before they bring in the headhunters?
By Sabrina Toppa
May 19, 2015
A Gruesome Historical Argument Against the Death Penalty
May 4, 1990: A death-row inmate in Florida dies in a botched execution by electric chair
By Jennifer Latson
May 4, 2015
Nitrogen Gas Executions Approved
Why Oklahoma became the first state to approve nitrogen gas as a lethal injection alternative
By Josh Sanburn
April 10, 2015
Texas to Execute Inmate as Drug Supply Dwindles
The state has enough pentobarbital for four more executions
By Josh Sanburn
April 9, 2015
The Strange Story of the Man Who Chose Execution By Firing Squad
How Gary Gilmore's 1977 execution came to pass
By Lily Rothman
March 12, 2015
The Cold, Hard Truth About Death by Firing Squad
It's undeniably brutal — but experts say it may be the most effective way to carry out the death penalty
By Josh Sanburn
March 12, 2015
Pakistan Reinstates Death Penalty After 7-Year Moratorium
More than 8,000 people sit on death row in the South Asian nation
By Sabrina Toppa
March 11, 2015
Nebraska Considers Eliminating the Death Penalty
With support from Republican lawmakers
By Josh Sanburn
March 5, 2015
Georgia Postpones Executions Over 'Cloudy' Drugs
Georgia's supply of lethal injection drug pentobarbital may have gone bad
By Josh Sanburn
March 3, 2015
Why America Could Change How It Puts People to Death
3 Inmates in Oklahoma are challenging the use of certain drugs in executions
By TIME Video
January 30, 2015
Supreme Court Halts 3 Executions
State is temporarily barred from using controversial sedative
By Josh Sanburn
January 28, 2015
Oklahoma Resumes Executions After Nearly 9-Month Delay
Thursday's execution came shortly after the Supreme Court rejected his legal team's appeal
By Josh Sanburn
January 15, 2015
Ohio Switches Up Lethal-Injection Drugs
The state is dropping a controversial drug while delaying executions
By Josh Sanburn
January 8, 2015
Maryland Gov Commutes State's Last Death Sentences
Maryland eliminated the death penalty in 2013
By Tessa Berenson
December 31, 2014
Oklahoma Inmate 'Felt Liquid Fire' During Execution
Expert says Clayton Lockett likely suffered on the execution table
By Josh Sanburn
December 18, 2014
Executions in the United States at 20 Year Low
It has been a tortured year for capital punishment in the U.S., with multiple botched executions, last-minute stays, and exonerations raising questions about the nation's ability to constitutionally met out the punishment
By Elizabeth Barber
December 18, 2014
Georgia Man Set for Execution Despite Drunk Lawyer
His attorney drank a quart of vodka a night
December 9, 2014
China Sets Deadline to Stop Taking Organs From Executed Prisoners
Starting next month, China will end its ethically unsettling reliance on transplant organs culled from its condemned prisoners, state media said
By Elizabeth Barber
December 5, 2014
Texas to Kill Schizophrenic Man
Scott Panetti, who is scheduled to die Wednesday, has a long history of severe mental illness
By Josh Sanburn
December 1, 2014
Utah Wants to Bring Back Execution by Firing Squad
State legislature may mandate firing squads if lethal injection drugs aren't available
By Josh Sanburn
November 20, 2014
Missouri Just Tied its Lethal Injection Record
Leon Taylor's lethal injection is the state's ninth this year
By Josh Sanburn
November 19, 2014
Ohio Looks to Shield Lethal Injection Drugmakers
Bill would keep the source of lethal injection drugs anonymous
By Josh Sanburn
November 13, 2014
Oklahoma Changes Lethal Injection Protocol, But Keeps Controversial Drug
After an execution widely regarded as botched
By Josh Sanburn
October 1, 2014
States Shield Injection Firms
Ohio's attorney general proposed shielding the identity of companies who provide drugs for execution, following the lead of other states
By Josh Sanburn
October 1, 2014
Texas Executes Woman for Murder of 9-Year-Old
She is the 15th woman to be executed in the U.S. since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976
By Elizabeth Barber
September 18, 2014
Oklahoma Changing Lethal Injection Approach
The new execution guidelines come after a report detailed the chaotic scene during the prolonged killing of Clayton Lockett
By Josh Sanburn
September 8, 2014
IV Problem Led To Botched Oklahoma Execution
An IV became dislodged sometime during the execution, according to a state review ordered by Oklahoma's governor
By Josh Sanburn
September 4, 2014
2 Men Freed After 30 Years in Jail
DNA evidence exonerates two half-brothers convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl
By Josh Sanburn
September 2, 2014
California to Fight Ruling Against Death Penalty
State Attorney General Kamala Harris to appeal
By Josh Sanburn
August 22, 2014
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