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

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...

Currently, the state’s primary method of carrying out the death penalty is lethal injection, and the firing squad is to be used if the chemicals for lethal injection cannot be obtained.

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 ...

A South Carolina man pleaded guilty Friday to gunning down a New Mexico State Police officer who had stopped to help him with a flat tire last year. The plea deal, offered to Jaremy Smith by the U.S.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney General told the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to stop using pentobarbital, the same drug Tennessee selected in its new execution protocol, because ...

It should insist on finishing what Gov. Katie Hobbs set out to do in January 2023, when she appointed retired Judge David ...