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.

President Donald Trump is ordering his attorney general to dramatically reverse Biden-era death penalty policy by seeking ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her ...

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

Former Executive Secretary and senatorial aspirant Vic Rodriguez will push for the lowering of the amount threshold and death penalty for plunder if elected senator in the May midterm elections.

But a commutation to a life sentence would complicate his efforts to prove these claims, he wrote, by depriving him of the “heightened scrutiny” associated with death penalty cases.

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Jason Jones’s attorney filed that motion in January 2023, and the judge considered the argument in March of that year.

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