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 ...

Trump, upon taking office on Monday, signed a series of executive orders that included tough restrictions on immigration, a ...

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government. His ...

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

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On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...

Mine is the death penalty. Don't tell Mum anything," his ... After Seyed Mohammad Hosseini and Mohammad Mehdi Karami were hanged, Western countries and human rights groups demanded that Iran ...

Anne Taylor has filed a slew of motions challenging the death penalty in Skylar Meade’s case, something she also attempted in Bryan Kohberger’s case. Ted S. Warren AP The lead attorney for ...

said their fight was not over and they will approach the high court seeking death penalty for the culprits. "In our own country, my brother was brutally murdered, and today, the honourable court ...

Cooper commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment for Cerron ... given the hundreds of death-row exonerations we’ve seen across the country and the overwhelming evidence of racism in ...