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

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

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

The Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, to imprisonment till death after he was ...

Supreme Court justices have sent Brenda Andrew's death penalty conviction back to a lower court for reconsideration after ...

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

The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls.

The Supreme Court is set to hear the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case, addressing demands for the death penalty ...

Sanjay Roy was held guilty under Sections 66 (rape), 64 (causing injury resulting in death) and 103 (1) (murder) of the ...

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

A bill imposing the death penalty by firing squad for public officials convicted of corruption-related criminal charges has ...