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

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

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

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

Prosecutors Tuesday urged a Clark County jury to find a man guilty of a revenge killing for murdering and cutting up and setting on fire the remains of the person they say ...

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

To unwind the spiderweb that we often see in this is often a challenge,” he said about the back-to-back murders last April.

Kenneth Marcus, who served as a top civil rights official in the George W. Bush and Trump administrations, lauded Biden for ...

A report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) this week states that five of the six journalists held by authorities in Ethiopia face the death penalty if found guilty of the ...

Government Senator and consultant psychiatrist Dr Saphire Longmore on Friday doubled down on her call for Jamaica to enforce ...