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

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

Trump's order, coming just hours after he returned to the White House, compels the Justice Department to not only seek the ...

President signs executive orders and promises pardons for Jan 6 ‘hostages’ - President-elect sworn-in at Capitol rotunda as ...

Officials, politicians and the director of a local warming shelter react to the death, on Jan. 11, 2025 of a man who was ...

With America's population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from reliably Democratic states to areas controlled by Republicans. Coming out of a presidential election where they ...

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state's highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the past to have ...

The new number surpassed Dallas County, which previously ranked second with 13 people despite not sending anyone to death row since 2018. Harris County, the state’s most populous county ...

reducing the state’s death row population by more than 10%. Cooper, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive four-year term, will give way to fellow Democrat Josh Stein on Wednesday when ...

Zimbabwe has about 60 prisoners on death row, and the new law spares them. The country last executed someone in 2005, partly because at one point no one was willing to take up the job of state ...

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 ...