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

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

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

Haishan Yang, a doctoral student in health economics, filed a lawsuit in federal court last week accusing the University of ...

Bryan Kohberger’s defense team is considering whether to assert a legal precedent set in another high-profile Idaho murder case in one more push to drop the death penalty as a possible sentence at ...

The Wyandotte County slaying of four people has prompted a constitutional challenge. TOPEKA — A long-shot constitutional ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

Lott claims that the scientific consensus is that the death penalty is a deterrent, writing: “Most peer-reviewed academic research contends that each additional execution causes there to be ...

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 on charges of murdering a Yemeni citizen.

and other research groups will conduct follow-up observations of J35, as well as new calf J62 when conditions and the movements of the whales allow." The CWR said the death of any calf in the ...

Fed up with this cycle of abuse, Priya, with the help of fellow nurse Hannan, allegedly tried to sedate Mahdi in a bid to obtain her papers. However ... Although murder is punished via the death ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death ...