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

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

(RNS) — In the final hours of 2024, North Carolina’s outgoing governor, Roy Cooper, commuted 15 death sentences, reducing by 10% the fifth-largest death row in the country — 121 of the state ...

Twenty-four countries across sub-Saharan Africa have abolished the death penalty for all crimes while two additional countries have abolished it for ordinary crimes only, Amnesty said. Mnangagwa ...