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

As Indonesian prosecutors prepared to appeal the jail sentence of a high-profile businessman which critics said was too ...

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

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

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

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

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

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

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 ...

Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States for the second time on Monday and he’s already passed two extreme laws in his first few days in office. After re-installing his famous ...