The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...

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

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...