>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The execution of a Georgia man scheduled for Wednesday has ...

Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

Summer Shockley with her father, Lance Shockley during a visit at Potosi Correctional Center, in 2024. Lance Shockley executed on Oct. 14, 2025, for the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman. Of ...

ATLANTA — The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is halting the execution of a Georgia man that was scheduled to happen this week. Stacey Ian Humphreys was scheduled to die on Dec. 17, 2025; the ...

A convicted murderer who was scheduled to be executed in Georgia this week had his date with death suspended after the state announced Monday that it was considering a new clemency application. Stacey ...

A rise in executions in the United States in 2025 occurred alongside “shifting public opinion” against the death penalty, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is long overdue to pronounce that in the United States, the Constitution protects innocent persons from execution. No less is required of a civilized society. We do not think of ...

Stacey Ian Humphreys, who sits on death row for the murder of two Cobb County real estate agents, can’t pause his execution over a pandemic-era memo that has shielded some capital inmates, a federal ...

COBB COUNTY, GA — The planned execution of a Georgia death row inmate convicted in the 2003 murders of two Cobb County real estate agents has been placed on hold, though the delay may only be ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. (AP) — Lawyers for a man set to be put to death next week in Georgia argue that an agreement entered into by the state and death penalty defense attorneys during the COVID-19 pandemic ...