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

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

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

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment. The order, “Restoring ...

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 ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

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