Death Penalty

Bondi: You Better Believe We'll Prosecute Pro-Hamas Assassin 'To the Fullest Extent of the Law'
Ed Morrissey 12:40 PM | May 22, 2025
Monday’s Final Word
Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | December 23, 2024
Kohberger’s Defense Team Wants the Death Penalty Off the Table
John Sexton 5:20 PM | September 06, 2024
South Carolina Offering Three Options for Death Penalty Next Month
Jazz Shaw 1:00 PM | August 25, 2024

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Dancing Women in Tehran Troll Their Oppressors in a Very Public Way
Karen Townsend 8:40 AM | April 30, 2024
Revisiting the Death Penalty for Cop Killers
Jazz Shaw 9:20 AM | April 03, 2024
Execution by nitrogen hypoxia?
Jazz Shaw 1:01 PM | August 26, 2023
Good news! Iranian actress imprisoned for speaking out against death penalty for protesters is freed
Karen Townsend 7:41 PM | January 04, 2023
Will Missouri execute the first "transgender woman" today?
Jazz Shaw 9:31 AM | January 03, 2023
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Oregon governor commutes all death penalty sentences
Jazz Shaw 5:31 PM | December 14, 2022
School shooter Nikolas Cruz gets life without parole, relatives of the victims are shocked (Update)
John Sexton 5:00 PM | October 13, 2022
DNA testing proves exonerated convict was guilty all along
John Sexton 1:23 PM | June 16, 2022
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Pelosi pushes back on archbishop: How come Catholics who support the death penalty can take communion?
Allahpundit 8:01 PM | May 24, 2022
SCOTUS to Boston Marathon terrorist: Buh-bye
Ed Morrissey 12:01 PM | March 04, 2022
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Barrett to Biden admin: Why are you asking for a death penalty you won't carry out?
Ed Morrissey 5:21 PM | October 14, 2021
Garland orders halt to federal executions
Jazz Shaw 12:01 PM | July 02, 2021
South Carolina is ordered to form an actual firing squad
Jazz Shaw 10:20 AM | June 17, 2021
Biden finally decides about death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber
Jazz Shaw 12:31 PM | June 16, 2021
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Atlanta D.A. who campaigned in opposition to death penalty: I'm seeking death for the spa mass murderer
Allahpundit 8:01 PM | May 11, 2021
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South Carolina bringing back electric chair, firing squad
Jazz Shaw 10:03 AM | May 06, 2021
Death row inmate seeks firing squad
Jazz Shaw 2:31 PM | April 20, 2021
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SCOTUS mystery: Will Biden admin defend Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence?
Ed Morrissey 11:13 AM | March 22, 2021
SCOTUS addresses the death penalty... sort of
Jazz Shaw 11:31 AM | February 13, 2021
Will Joe Biden end the federal death penalty? Can he?
Jazz Shaw 9:51 AM | February 08, 2021
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Manson family victims: Why is Los Angeles DA supporting parole for these murderers?
Ed Morrissey 12:50 PM | February 01, 2021
Curtain closes on federal executions
Jazz Shaw 10:01 AM | January 16, 2021
Dems already moving to end federal death penalty
Jazz Shaw 10:27 AM | January 14, 2021
Execution of female murderer derailed at 11th hour
Jazz Shaw 9:29 AM | January 12, 2021
Scott Peterson's death penalty is overturned... for now
Jazz Shaw 10:01 AM | August 25, 2020
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Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be executed? Joe Biden won't say
Jazz Shaw 2:01 PM | August 04, 2020
Boston "abolishes" special SWAT team that captured Marathon Bomber
Jazz Shaw 9:31 AM | August 02, 2020
Appellate court throws out death sentence for Boston Marathon terrorist -- for now
Ed Morrissey 11:31 AM | August 01, 2020
SCOTUS rules federal executions are back on UPDATE: Lewis executed
Jazz Shaw 8:01 AM | July 14, 2020
Texas appellate court halts execution -- over coronavirus spread fears
Ed Morrissey 8:41 AM | March 17, 2020
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Let the condemned choose how they die
Jazz Shaw 12:31 PM | February 20, 2020
Saudi Arabia orders death penalty for five over Khashoggi killing
Jazz Shaw 8:01 AM | December 23, 2019
Wow: Strong majority now favors life in prison instead of death penalty for murderers
Allahpundit 3:01 PM | November 28, 2019
Poll: Little change in public's view of impeachment after Sondland's "bombshell" testimony
Allahpundit 8:41 PM | November 25, 2019
Judge halts federal executions... for now
Jazz Shaw 12:31 PM | November 21, 2019
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Buttigieg: No, I wouldn't execute 9/11 plotter KSM
Jazz Shaw 9:21 AM | October 03, 2019
Bill Weld: Trump might be guilty of treason -- and the penalty for treason is death
Allahpundit 11:31 AM | September 23, 2019
Federal government's death penalty decision bad on multiple levels
Taylor Millard 10:01 PM | July 25, 2019
Biden 1992: My crime bill has so many death-penalty offenses, it does everything but hang people for jaywalking
Allahpundit 10:01 PM | June 20, 2019
Slain officer's widow does not remember Kamala Harris fondly
John Sexton 3:21 PM | April 09, 2019
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More on the "painless execution" question
Jazz Shaw 12:31 PM | April 02, 2019
Supreme Court: Eighth Amendment doesn't require a "painless" execution
Ed Morrissey 6:01 PM | April 01, 2019
Newsom: I'm unilaterally ending California executions that, um, haven't happened in more than a decade anyway
Ed Morrissey 8:41 PM | March 13, 2019
Supposed "suspects" in Khashoggi's killing go to court
Jazz Shaw 10:01 AM | January 03, 2019
Ecuador: Assange can leave our embassy after deal with UK -- and he should
Ed Morrissey 5:21 PM | December 06, 2018
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AP wonders: Can Kavanaugh, other Catholic judges "uphold the law as written" after Pope Francis' death-penalty decree?
Ed Morrissey 4:01 PM | August 06, 2018