Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant this week for Frank Athen Walls, whose execution is now scheduled for Dec. 18.

No other state has increased its use of the death penalty as quickly as Florida has. The issues plaguing our death penalty system remain unaddressed.

Capital punishment has been rarer in recent years, but 2025 has brought a complete reversal. This year has seen the most death row inmates put to death in a decade, a trend that will likely only continue under President Donald Trump, who is a proponent of the death penalty.

This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on the increase.

This is all bad news for people seeking to end capital punishment in the United States. However, I don’t think that it suggests we are seeing a revival of the death penalty after a long period of

Harold Wayne Nichols is to be executed Dec. 11. He's asked Gov. Bill Lee to commute his sentence to life without the possibility of parole.

Bryan Jennings, convicted of the 1979 rape and murder of a six-year-old girl, is scheduled for execution on November 13. His attorneys have filed for a stay of execution, arguing his death warrant was signed while he was without legal representation for ...

To be eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, the defendant must be at least 18 at the time of the crime and convicted of aggravated murder with certain factors. That includes killing a child or police officer, murder for hire and committing murder in tandem with another serious crime.