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

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

The two judges, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, dealt with sensitive cases, a spokesman said. Moghiseh was known to handle ...

Steven Nelson is on death row for murdering a pastor, but Christians are split on who gets the final say—God or the court?

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

The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her ...

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.