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

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

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

Sanjoy Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sealdah court for the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor. Despite ...

On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...

The court’s decision aided and abetted a cover-up of the conditions and treatment of South Carolina prisoners and death row ...

The decision of two death row inmates to turn down clemency sounds unthinkable, but they are not the first to do it ...

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 ...

He said his son had called him in tears the day that he was sentenced to death. "Dad, they gave us the verdict. Mine is the death penalty ... Mr Ardakani submitted papers to appeal the Supreme ...

and refused to sign the papers offered with the commutation." Agofsky, initially imprisoned for another murder that occurred when he was 18, according to The Death Penalty Information Center ...

Two death row inmates ... and refused to sign the papers offered with the commutation”. The filing added that commuting his sentence would leave Agofsky in a “position of fundamental ...