Oklahoma death row inmate Brenda Andrew could get another trial after the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and said she may not ...

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

In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk ...

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

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to what some consider an archaic execution method because of a ...

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

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

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

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

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.