Only three other defendants had been executed by firing squad in the country since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Sigmon’s execution was the sixth in the U.S. so far in 2025.

Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned execution of an individual for committing a specific crime. Since 1976, more than 85 nations have abolished the death penalty ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting the death penalty as an “essential ... chartered National Research Council (NRC), which concluded that ...

According to a death penalty research organization, the 12 persons sentenced to death and later exonerated in North Carolina, including eleven persons of color, were sentenced before North ...

AI chatbots can be more covertly racist than humans, a study has shown – and are more likely to recommend the death penalty ... reviewed paper is published on arXiv, an open-access research ...

The Death Penalty Project has done research in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean that has shown repeatedly that such perceptions – about public opinion being strongly in favour of retention of a ...

Iran executed as many as 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of the use of the death penalty, human rights groups claimed on Thursday. The data "reveals a horrifying escalation ...

Corcoran was the states’ first execution in 15 years. “The research basically shows that in places where the death penalty has been abolished that they actually have a less lesser murder rate ...

The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday lessening the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be considered intellectually disabled, which would make them ineligible for ...