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

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

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

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

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

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, introduced the bill Tuesday, which would make Idaho the only U.S. state to give preference to a ...

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned ...

The CBI will file an appeal before the Calcutta High Court, seeking death sentence for Sanjay Roy, who was sentenced to "life imprisonment until death" by a Sealdah court in ...

Judge rules against death penalty in doctor’s rape-murder case; victim’s family and medical community demand probe into ...