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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...