death penalty

A new measure proposes the use of firearms as another method of execution in Indiana.

The request comes shortly after Gov. Mike Braun suggested that state lawmakers take up debate on capital punishment.

Gov. Mike Braun said he's open to a discussion about the future of capital punishment in Indiana.

Lawmakers in Connecticut want to ban state companies from profiting off drugs used in federal executions, all of which are carried out in Indiana.

Faith leaders and a bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered Monday at the Statehouse to rally support for a measure to repeal Indiana’s death penalty.

Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said his office consulted with relatives of slain Elwood police Officer Noah Shahnavaz, the Indiana attorney general's office and prosecutors experienced in handling death penalty cases.

The Clinton County prosecutor's office is seeking the death penalty against a man charged with murdering two women in the parking lot of an NHK factory in Frankfort late Wednesday.

Anti-death penalty advocates want President Joe Biden to dismantle the federal death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana where 13 executions were carried out between July of 2020 and January 2021.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man charged in the killing last year of a 24-year-old Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Breann Leath who was fatally shot as she responded to a domestic violence call.

If both executions take place, the two men would become the sixth and seventh federal prisoners executed in the past two months.