Indiana killer Benjamin Ritchie, 45, was executed earlier this week following the 2000 murder of a local police officer ...

Our politicians want tough-guy credit for killing killers, while detaching themselves from the reality of their decisions.

Matthew Lee Johnson was executed on May 20 for the murder of Nancy Judith Harris in May 2012 in the Dallas suburb of Garland.

FILE - A guard stands in a tower at Indiana State Prison on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Michigan City, Ind. (AP Photo/Erin ...

Human justice is never perfect. That’s why the death penalty is so dangerous. Indiana reminds us that it’s still with us.

Matthew Lee Johnson was convicted of killing Nancy Harris in Garland, Texas in May 2012. Harris died five days after Johnson ...

A Texas man has been executed 13 years to the day of a convenience store robbery in which he set a clerk on fire in a Dallas ...

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Friday morning, via video teleconference, 56th Judicial Circuit Judge Jamus Redd sat alone in the quiet third floor of the Trigg County Judicial Center — and heard Kevin Wayne Dunlap’s defense team ...