The Oregonian/OregonLive's Noelle Crombie joins Editor Therese Bottomly to talk about a series of articles on scandals at the Oregon Department of Corrections and Oregon Youth Authority.

Guns were the leading cause of death among American youth for the third year in a row in 2023, outpacing car accidents.

Mikal Mahdi has been described as a cold-blooded killer. In 2006, Mahdi was convicted and sentenced to death in South Carolina for the murder of an off-duty ...

As the US prepares for the execution of four Death Row inmates, the controversial use of nitrogen gas raises ethical concerns.

Find out more about the murders of Gelareh Bagherzadeh and Coty Beavers, as detailed in Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler.

The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad ...

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. JESSE HOFFMAN IS ACCUSED OF RAPING AND KILLING A WOMAN NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO IN SAINT TAMMANY. AND THE CASE ...

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so ... This includes California, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Ohio, where governors have currently placed executions on hold.

Back when he was put on death row, the assumed execution method was a lethal injection, but those drugs have been hard to come by in recent years --leading to a backlog on death row and now the ...

Arizona death row inmate Aaron Gunches declines clemency ahead of his March ... which was refurbished in late 2020 since it was last used for an execution in 1999. Under current law, those who decline ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carr ...

(AP Photo/Scott Stewart) Although little noticed amid our current crises ... Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 inmates on federal death row. By contrast, Donald Trump issued ...