Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

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

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 ...

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

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed petitions in federal court a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 ...

The death penalty is arbitrary, capricious, more expensive than non-capital incarcerations and poisoned by racial bias. The ...

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

In my experience, juries in death penalty cases are thoughtful and meticulous in one of the most difficult duties a citizen ...

Anne Taylor asked the judge in a slew of motions to remove capital punishment as an option using the same legal playbook that she tried — and failed — to use in Kohberger’s case.

But the president’s commutation power “is grounded in his constitutional authority and is absolute,” said Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.“ ...