According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...
The death penalty is not the hot-button political ... Indiana — from July 2020 through January 2021, the last one just four days before the end of Trump’s term. As a presidential candidate ...
On Dec. 19, Kevin Ray Underwood became the last person executed in 2024. Oklahoma put him to death for the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Rolin. Six days earlier, the Oklahoma Pardon and ...
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...