The state’s interest in capital punishment appears to have cooled, according to available data, influenced by cultural shifts ...

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the federal death penalty Jan. 20, among the first actions of his second ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

ZAMBOANGA 1st District Rep. Khymer Adan Olaso filed a bill that will impose the penalty of death by firing squad for public ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

In an executive order titled "Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety," Trump reversed a Biden-era ...