Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

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

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities.

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

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

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 ...

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to what some consider an archaic execution method because of a ...

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

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

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 ...