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

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

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 ...

Many states have recognized the profound moral, legal and social costs of capital punishment. In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that placed a moratorium on the death penalty in ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...