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

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

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

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

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