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

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.

Both President Trump and Attorney General–designate Pam Bondi are positioned to stop lawfare, but only if the Democrats ...

Mandauehanons have expressed varying opinions regarding the proposed House Bill imposing the death penalty on corrupt ...

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

Brenda Andrew, Oklahoma’s only woman on death row, has been granted a lifeline by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has ordered a new review of her case following claims that her trial was unfair due to ...

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

The Supreme Court ordered a new review of Brenda Andrew's death penalty case in Oklahoma, citing prejudicial evidence in her ...

Mark Weaver’s opinion editorial Jan. 2 misses the point on the death penalty: the problem isn’t just how the system is or isn’t working for victims’ families — it’s the death penalty itself. This ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

The Kolkata trial court which convicted civic volunteer Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case did not mince its words ...