The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

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 ...

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

Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment. The order, “Restoring ...

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 ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

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

01/08/2025 January 8, 2025 In a historic move, Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, following a decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Once sentenced to death himself, Mnangagwa's decision ...

An Iranian official has said he is willing to assist on humanitarian grounds the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya who has been sentenced to death in Yemen ... as Yemen's law allowed only ...