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Author: BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND STORYFUL - Publish Date: November 18, 2021 at 11:35PM Julius Jones was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2002 after being accused of killing a man in 1999. Demonstrators gathered at the Oklahoma governor’s mansion and State Capitol in an effort to stop his execution that is scheduled for Thursday.

Author: BY CHRISTINE HAUSER - Publish Date: June 3, 2021 at 03:40AM Global headlines reflected the anger of death camp survivors and others after The Guardian published documents showing the state planned to return to the use of hydrogen cyanide, a gas associated with what the Nazis called Zyklon B.

Author: BY EDGAR SANDOVAL - Publish Date: May 21, 2021 at 06:38AM Quintin Jones, 41, had been convicted of killing a great-aunt and drew national attention when his relatives sought clemency.

Author: BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Publish Date: May 12, 2021 at 07:58AM Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, said her office would seek the death penalty for Robert Aaron Long, the man accused of killing eight people at three spas in the Atlanta area.

Author: BY RICHARD FAUSSET AND RICK ROJAS - Publish Date: May 7, 2021 at 02:00PM State lawmakers have voted to add the firing squad as an alternative to the electric chair or lethal injection, with the drugs used for capital punishment in short supply.

Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: March 27, 2021 at 07:15AM Virginia’s move to end the death penalty was a welcome step. The administration can do more.

Author: BY HAILEY FUCHS - Publish Date: March 25, 2021 at 07:08AM “Ending the death penalty comes down to one fundamental question, one question: Is it fair?” said Gov. Ralph Northam, who signed the bill on Wednesday.

Author: BY CHARLES M. BLOW - Publish Date: February 25, 2021 at 08:02AM State power is the path to racial equality and liberation.

Author: BY TRIP GABRIEL - Publish Date: February 5, 2021 at 06:50AM Democrats in control of the Legislature are pushing for a ban on executions, the latest policy change in an ascendant progressive agenda in the state.

Author: BY BRYAN PIETSCH - Publish Date: December 26, 2020 at 10:10AM A new delay could push Lisa Montgomery’s execution into the administration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has said he opposes the death penalty.

Author: BY HAILEY FUCHS - Publish Date: December 12, 2020 at 09:32AM Alfred Bourgeois was put to death by lethal injection for murdering his 2-year-old daughter.

Author: BY HAILEY FUCHS - Publish Date: December 11, 2020 at 10:04AM Despite a high-profile clemency campaign by allies of President Trump, the administration executed Brandon Bernard by lethal injection for his role in the 1999 crime.

Author: BY HAILEY FUCHS - Publish Date: November 26, 2020 at 11:13AM The rule, which would permit methods including firing squads and electrocution, comes as the administration rushes to execute five more prisoners before President Trump’s term ends.

Author: BY HAILEY FUCHS - Publish Date: July 18, 2020 at 05:59AM Dustin Lee Honken was put to death by lethal injection for the 1993 murders of five people.

Author: BY GRAHAM LEE BREWER AND MANNY FERNANDEZ - Publish Date: February 14, 2020 at 06:46AM After a pair of botched executions and a five-year hiatus, Oklahoma is preparing to once again carry out the death penalty with the use of lethal injections.

Author: BY ADAM LIPTAK - Publish Date: December 7, 2019 at 06:55AM The Trump administration had asked the justices to overturn a trial judge’s ruling that blocked the first four federal executions scheduled in nearly two decades.

Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR - Publish Date: November 1, 2019 at 09:02AM Steven Hayes is serving six life sentences for the 2007 murder of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Michaela and Hayley.

Author: BY ADAM LIPTAK - Publish Date: October 17, 2019 at 06:48AM The justices weighed whether Mr. Malvo, who was 17 when he and his partner killed 10 people in the Washington area, is entitled to a new sentencing.

Author: BY HANNAH BEECH AND RYN JIRENUWAT - Publish Date: October 15, 2019 at 09:33AM A judge’s dramatic act drew attention to his accusations that he was being pressured to unfairly convict five Muslims in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south.

Author: CHARLIE SAVAGE - Publish Date: May 14, 2019 at 07:00AM A new opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel says death-penalty drugs, like tobacco, are inherently unsafe and so are beyond the F.D.A.’s reach.