The report by the Death Penalty Information Center was released on Thursday, the same day that Oklahoma conducted the ...

Rhode Island restored the death penalty for rape and arson; Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Connecticut raised death crimes from six to ten, including sodomy, maiming, robbery, and forgery.

The report by the Death Penalty Information Center was released ... Seven of these nine states rank among the top ten exe­cut­ing states in the mod­ern era, according to the report.