President Trump said the federal government should control the nation’s capital. Democrats and most local residents have long ...

The ACLU of Ohio is calling for a repeal of the state's current death penalty laws, but some conservative state lawmakers ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

According to the latest Afrobarometer survey , 82% of Botswanans believe capital punishment is justified, while only 16% ...

Democratic Representative Al Green said he would file the articles over Trump's proposal that the U.S. "take over" Gaza.

Iowans and their elected officials are doing nothing to protect both prison employees and inmates from death. So please ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Pierce said clemency for all the defendants was justified because, he contends, they couldn't get a fair jury in the nation's heavily Democratic capital. The federal courthouse in Washington ...

The Florida Legislature was poised Wednesday to pass what Gov. Ron DeSantis is hailing as the strongest legislation to combat ...

Democratic lawmakers and leaders are taking fire from their own members over what’s seen as their ‘pathetic’ response to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s crusade to reshape the federal government.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Donald ...

Christian Paz is a senior politics reporter at Vox, where he covers the Democratic Party. He joined Vox in 2022 after reporting on national and international politics for the Atlantic’s politics ...