However, only three individuals remain on federal death row after former President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 people on Dec. 23 and instead sentenced them to lif ...

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

Texas has been the top executioner in the U.S. for decades, but the death penalty is declining due to legal and social factors.

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

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

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

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

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

"Dad, they gave us the verdict. Mine is the death penalty. Don't tell Mum anything," his father recalled, reiterating his son's innocence. Later, opposition activist group 1500 Tasvir published an ...

The state wants the 4th District Court of Appeal to reverse Rowe's December ruling that Williams is ineligible for the death penalty because he suffers from an intellectual disability. Prosecutors ...

In 2024, Robert Roberson captured national attention and reignited debates about the fairness and accuracy of the death penalty in Texas. While Roberson rightly dominated headlines due to the ...