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

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

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

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

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

Indiana ended its 15-year pause on the execution of inmates sentenced to death. However, legislation already has been filed ...

The problems with the death penalty are well known ... has earned society’s wrath and, yes, some retribution. Indeed, if the murderer of 20 first graders and six school employees in Sandy ...

Recently, the White House announced that President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners, all murderers and some multiple murderers, on federal death row. (Yes, while most death ...

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

On January 20, a Kolkata court sentenced convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment until death after finding him guilty of ...

“Yes, the president had a personal role he ... the majority of them come from poor backgrounds. Secondly, [the] death penalty by nature is not part of our culture as Africans, as Zimbabweans.

The Bengal government on Tuesday approached Calcutta High Court challenging the Sealdah court sentencing Roy to rigorous life ...