After adjusting for inflation, the court costs of pursuing death penalty convictions ... been moved off of Death Row and placed in regular high-security prisons — such as California State ...

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

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

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

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

Two dozen men are under sentences of death sought by Sacramento County prosecutors and imposed by local juries, state data ...

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

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, ...

The problems with the death penalty are well known, from exhibiting racial bias against defendants of color, to the very high cost of appeals and the great time involved. Capital punishment also ...

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...