@USATODAY / X screen shot US Sees Biggest Day of Executions in Years "You look at the country as a whole, you’ve just got this little pocket of five or six states that are using the death penalty..." By Bryan Chai August 14, 2026
Trent Nelson - Pool / Getty Images No Death Penalty: Tyler Robinson's Attorneys Launch Plan to Keep Charlie Kirk's Accused Murderer Off Death Row - and It Could Work “The only evidence presented supports that the bullet traveled above, not through, the crowd,” defense attorneys claimed. By C. Douglas Golden August 14, 2026
Aaron Yoder / Getty ImagesCommentary Mom Throws Herself Between Armed Punk and Her Son, Punk Walks Away, Seconds Later a Bullet Pierces Her Skull A mother heroically saved her son's life, losing her own when a Facebook marketplace deal turned violent last week. By Samuel Short June 16, 2026
Jason Mowry / Getty Images Ohio GOP Gov. Mike DeWine Urges Legislature to End Death Penalty – No 'Moral Justification' for It DeWine, who has represented Ohio in the House and Senate and served as his state's attorney general, will leave office this coming January. By Johnathan Jones June 16, 2026
@EricLDaugh / X screen shot Owner of Trump House Who Was Brutally Beaten Has Died - Wife Believes Politics Motivated Murder Police have found no such motive, but a grieving widow wondered if politics played a role in the lethal assault on her Trump-loving husband. By Michael Schwarz May 26, 2026
Benjamin Fanjoy / Getty ImagesCommentary Elon Musk Says What Every Decent Person Thinks But Is Afraid to Say About Child-Mutilating Doctors Perhaps overcome by the evil of it all, Musk advocated the "death sentence" for child-mutilating doctors, thereby earning support on X. By Michael Schwarz May 18, 2026
Amanda McCoy -Star-Telegram - pool / APCommentary Leftist Influencer's Mangione Celebration Resurfaces After He Opposes Death Penalty for Child Murderer The modern left’s oh-so-virtuous stand on the sanctity of human life collapsed with two social media posts. By Johnathan Jones May 6, 2026
Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images DOJ to Bring Back Old-School Execution Method as Part of Plan to 'Strengthen the Federal Death Penalty' The firing squad could return for federal executions under a new plan proposed by the Department of Justice. By Jack Davis April 24, 2026
Saul Loeb - AFP / Getty Images Suspect in Iryna Zarutska Killing Declared 'Incapable to Proceed' in Murder Trial The state murder charge in Iryna Zarutska's killing is on hold. But a federal charge remains, and the death penalty is on the table. By Joe Saunders April 8, 2026
Saul Loeb - AFP / Getty Images Federal Grand Jury Indicts Man Suspected of Murdering Iryna Zaruska - The Death Penalty Is on the Table The man suspected of killing a Ukrainian woman in August has been indicted on a charge that makes him eligible for the death penalty. By Jack Davis October 23, 2025