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 ...

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

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

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

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

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

The West Bengal government has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a death sentence for Sanjoy Roy, the accused in the RG ...

Cuttack: Orissa high court on Wednesday commuted the death penalty awarded to nine convicts in a 2016 case in which three ...