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

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...

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

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

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long national decline in executions and provide federal ...

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

PEDOPHILES could be facing the death penalty as Trump backs new House GOP bill to get predators “off the streets.” The ...

“Death was ‘the standard penalty for all serious crimes’ at the time of the founding,” Gorsuch wrote in Bucklew. And, while his opinion does list some methods of execution — “dragging ...