Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 9, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Carlton Fisk is all smiles as he ...

Robert Roberson, an East Texas man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, poses for a photo at the TDCJ Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Juan ...

When the history of America’s long journey toward the abolition of capital punishment is written, it will be studded with the names of people who, in their time, took little-noticed decisions to ...

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty. Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead of stab ...

Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing Louisiana to resume executing death row prisoners, with the state potentially carrying out its first executions since 2010 next month with nitrogen gas on the table. A pair ...

The high-profile assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker and her husband could bring about a form of punishment long banned in the state. That cooperation between the two entities, however, isn't as ...

Between 1976 and 2015, 80% of Louisiana's capital sentences were later reversed. Bernd Obermann/Getty Images Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2015. The Free Press is republishing it, slightly updated, after Michigan's only federal death row inmate recently had his death sentence commuted ...

The fatal stabbing on a Charlotte light-rail train last month has prompted calls for the revival of the death penalty in North Carolina. North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger said Thursday he wants ...