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 ...

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

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

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

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 ...

Marcus Freeman made quite the gamble with this late play between Notre Dame and Georgia. But, as the saying goes, fortune certainly favors the bold. During the late moments of Thursday’s Sugar ...

An Iranian official has said he is willing to assist on humanitarian grounds the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya who has been sentenced to death in Yemen on charges of murdering a Yemeni citizen.

LIVE: Follow Notre Dame vs. Georgia updates from CFP quarterfinals Yet a flag on the play spoiled Georgia's big gain, thanks to a rare penalty — sideline interference. Jones, wearing street ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death ...

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law a bill on Tuesday which will commute sentences of around 60 prisoners on death row to jail time.