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

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

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

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

With five prisoners executed in one week, the U.S. marked 1,600 executions since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Nine U.S. states have carried out 25 executions this year ...

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Over the past four years, Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches.

Death-penalty abolitionists say this inherently atrocious penalty never fits any crime. Proponents consider it appropriate punishment for “the worst of the worst,” a category democratic ...