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 state’s interest in capital punishment appears to have cooled, according to available data, influenced by cultural shifts ...

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

The Supreme Court will consider whether to order new nationwide precedent about how lower courts will consider facts over ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

Arnoldo Jimenez is accused of stabbing his gorgeous, young new bride to death- hours after they were married. He is on the ...

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

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

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed petitions in federal court a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 ...