Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

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

The Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, to imprisonment till death after he was ...

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

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 ...

f. The principal of the hospital showed dereliction of duty in not intimating the police on time and attempting to show the ...

But the president’s commutation power “is grounded in his constitutional authority and is absolute,” said Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.“ ...