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 ...

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...

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

The Texas Legislature may clarify for medical professionals when it’s legal to perform a life-saving abortion, Lt. Gov. Dan ...

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

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

A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for stabbing a woman more than 60 times, stuffing her body in a suitcase, and dumping it in a river.

A routine traffic stop in Texas turned deadly within seconds when a police officer shot and killed 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes ...

One person died and two others were injured in a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train station in Nagano in central ...

There were more than two dozen people from Kentucky charged in the insurrection before President Trump issued pardons.