Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

The North-South Dialogues round table on the theme “Prospects and interregional cooperation for the abolition of death penalty” took place on 20 May at 17h00 at the Institute of Political Studies of ...

A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) effectively removing ...

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

The justice ecosystem has, since the moratorium on death penalty, been weighing the benefits or otherwise of reintroducing ...

Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) questions Prabowo's commitment to fulfilling his promise to ...