Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

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 ...

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

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

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

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

The agency is likely to file the appeal against the Sealdah court order as soon as possible with detailed arguments in favour ...

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

The Sealdah court rejected CBI's plea seeking death penalty for Roy, saying the crime did not fall under the "rarest of the ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

The Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, to imprisonment till death after he was ...