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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

There has been a growing trend toward abolition, as public opinion has shifted, concerns about wrongful convictions have arisen, and the costs of death penalty cases have increased. Death penalty ...

The order did not include three inmates whose crimes included high-profile mass shootings ... nature of both the commutations and the death penalty more broadly. “The defendant never requested ...

President Biden pardoned the death sentences ... to be a one term President. High inflation (worse than our recent inflation) and the Iran hostage mess combined to cost him the 1980 election ...