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

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

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

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

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

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