As Indonesian prosecutors prepared to appeal the jail sentence of a high-profile businessman which critics said was too ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

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

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

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.

A congressman from Mindanao has filed House Bill 1211, or the proposed Death Penalty for Corruption Act, which seeks to revive capital punishment, specifically proposing that government officials ...

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

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

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

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

Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States for the second time on Monday and he’s already passed two extreme laws in his first few days in office. After re-installing his famous ...