Here is more about the orders signed on Monday and whether they can be implemented: How do executive orders work? An ...

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

Brenda Andrew, a former Sunday school teacher, argued that evidence about her personal life wasn't fair to use during her ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Prosecutors have sought the death penalty for Williams since January 2022 ... For intellectual disability to be a bar to execution under Florida law, a defendant must show significantly sub ...

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 ... as Yemen's law allowed only ...

Racial biases influenced early death penalty laws, Paul M. Lucko, Professor Emeritus at Murray State University, wrote for the Texas State Historical Association. The death penalty was unequally ...

Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will commute to jail time the sentences of about 60 prisoners on death row.