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

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

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

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

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

The West Bengal government has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a death sentence for Sanjoy Roy, the accused in the RG ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches.

Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs were outmatched by Notre Dame on Thursday, getting bounced in their first game of this year's College Football Playoff. After the game, Smart was asked about ...

An Iranian official has said he is willing to assist on humanitarian grounds the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya who has been sentenced to death in Yemen on charges of murdering a Yemeni citizen.

Yet in a 2018 report, the Washington-D.C.-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center ... refusal to release the new protocol, given that background, as “mystifying." ...