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 ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...

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.

Aaron Gunches asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an expedited execution warrant for him more than a decade after he was ...

Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it ...

Just because someone new arrives on Arizona's death row doesn't mean they are last in line for execution. Here's why.