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 ...

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

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 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 ...

Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life without parole. Before these commutations, the state had 136 offenders on death row and the Governor’s ...

Marion Bowman Jr.,44, is on death row for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin was shot in the head and her body was found in the trunk of a car that had been burned.

Less than two weeks later, he commuted the sentences of 37 additional inmates on death row to life without the possibility of parole. Capital punishment is currently legal in 27 states ...