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

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.

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed petitions in federal court a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 ...

The death penalty is arbitrary, capricious, more expensive than non-capital incarcerations and poisoned by racial bias. The ...