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

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

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

A lawmaker in the House of Representatives announced plans to introduce legislation that would abolish the death penalty in ...

The federal death penalty was first enacted in 1790 to punish certain federal crimes, such as treason, piracy and counterfeiting. In 1972, the U.S.

A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

Zimbabwe hasn’t executed anyone who was sentenced to death since 2005. With the passing of the Death Penalty Abolition Act ...

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

The justice ecosystem has, since the moratorium on death penalty, been weighing the benefits or otherwise of reintroducing ...

Minister of Justice Titus Mvalo has reaffirmed Malawi’s determination to abolish the death penalty, a move welcomed by the Australian High Commissioner to Malawi, Minoli Perera. The commitment ...