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

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

President Donald Trump is ordering his attorney general to dramatically reverse Biden-era death penalty policy by seeking ...

The federal death penalty was first enacted in 1790 to punish certain federal crimes, such as treason, piracy and counterfeiting. In 1972, the U.S.