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

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

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

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

The pope asked the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square "to pray for the prisoners who are on death row in the United States." "Let us pray that their sentence be commuted, changed", the pope said.

President signs executive orders and promises pardons for Jan 6 ‘hostages’ - President-elect sworn-in at Capitol rotunda as ...

Iranian authorities reportedly executed 901 people last year, including around 40 in a single week in December, the United ... death penalty with a view to ultimately abolishing it. Some 170 ...

The United Nations ... “The death penalty is profoundly difficult to reconcile with human dignity and the fundamental right to life. “All states that still maintain the death penalty should ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death ...

reducing the state’s death row population by more than 10%. Cooper, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive four-year term, will give way to fellow Democrat Josh Stein on Wednesday when ...

Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison without ... Palestinian Americans across the United States, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, celebrated a ...

The decision puts back on track the agreements that would have the three men plead guilty to one of the deadliest attacks on the United States in ... of the death penalty. The attacks by al ...