The use of the death penalty as a strategic bargaining tool in criminal cases raises questions about whether prosecutors are pursuing justice or using the threat of execution to gain leverage in negotiations.

Oklahoma officials have locked in May 14, 2026, as the new execution date for Raymond Eugene Johnson, the Tulsa man convicted in 2009 of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter in 2007.

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP TAKE IS FOR THIS YEAR. GULF COAST INVESTIGATOR EVAN ...

With 19 executions last year, Florida more than doubled its own record, and put more people to death than Texas, Alabama, and South Carolina combined. This execution spree came even as Florida’s lethal injection protocol has come under scrutiny,

Republican U.S. Representative Nancy Mace announced her introduction of the Death Penalty for Child Rapists Act on X Thursday.

Record number of executions in Saudi Arabia and drugs crackdown in Iran offset broader global trend away from capital punishment