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

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

The death penalty is arbitrary, capricious, more expensive than non-capital incarcerations and poisoned by racial bias. The ...

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

Leading opponents of the death penalty quickly and lavishly praised ... of people whom law professor Robert Blecker calls “the worst of the worst“? Apparently, Biden thinks so.

We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” President-elect Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to seek the death penalty for the country’s worst criminals. AP Trump’s promise reupped his campaign ...

Death-penalty abolitionists say this inherently atrocious penalty never fits any crime. Proponents consider it appropriate punishment for “the worst of the worst,” a category democratic ...

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be ...

China has executed a man found guilty of killing at least 35 people in a car attack in November, in what is thought to be the ...

The White House announced today that Biden is commuting the death penalty sentences of 37 out ... most criminal justice groups and avoid the worst political blowback, and it will clear most ...

Mr Trump was responding to President Joe Biden's decision to reduce the sentences of almost all federal inmates on death row to life imprisonment - whom Mr Trump called "37 of the worst killers in our ...

Trump’s promise reupped his campaign vow to seek the death penalty against violent offenders ... just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country.