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

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

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

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

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

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

Greeshma, at 24, has become the youngest woman in Kerala to be sentenced to death for the murder of her boyfriend, Sharon Raj ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches.

Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs were outmatched by Notre Dame on Thursday, getting bounced in their first game of this year's College Football Playoff. After the game, Smart was asked about ...

Yet in a 2018 report, the Washington-D.C.-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center ... refusal to release the new protocol, given that background, as “mystifying." ...