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President Barack Obama used his clemency power to issue a large number of and a smaller number of pardons and high-profile individual grants; notable names cited across official lists and media covera...
, and are the core states on record that have authorized as an execution method, and several others — including and — have added statutory or protocol language or moved toward implementation; Alabama ...
DNA testing has been a decisive tool in freeing people from death row: the first U.S. death‑row exoneration by DNA was Kirk Bloodsworth in 1993, and advocacy groups and databases report dozens—ranging...
capital cases move through a deliberate sequence: most appeals occur after final judgment and sentencing, but the allow limited by petitioning the appellate court for permission under Rule 5, with pro...
Several states changed laws or practices in 2025 to permit or prioritize alternative execution methods amid shortages and legal pressures on lethal injection; most-noted moves include Idaho making the...
A range of U.S. organizations — national litigation groups, death‑penalty advocacy networks, survivor‑led groups and local defense clinics — work to free wrongly convicted people from death row; promi...
Posthumous honors and pardons for military figures rest on a mix of constitutional clemency power, state executive clemency rules, historical practice of presidential pardons for military-related case...