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

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned ...

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

International law prohibits the use of the death penalty for crimes that are not intentional and of “the most serious” nature ...

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) effectively removing ...