Death Penalty Archives

The Psychology of the Executioner

A look inside the minds of those who have participated in firing squads and lethal injections.

The Supreme Court is reviewing lethal injection for the first time in seven years. Here’s what it means for the death penalty.

How the new mental health facility for California’s death row inmates reflects our nation’s ongoing ambivalence about the death penalty.

Gradual advancements in the art and science of fire investigation continue.

A report advocating death penalty reforms finds that false confessions in capital cases can be limited by recording the questioning of suspects.

Amid drug shortage, states look to shady distributors—with disastrous results.

A new study finds that prisoners who deny their guilt are more likely to hold out on eating before execution.

If we’re going to kill people, there's only one good way to do it.

Pharmaceutical companies in the European Union are blocking off-label drugs for executions.

Public opinion of the death penalty remains stable in the U.S., and higher in Texas.