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

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 ...

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose ...

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

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state's highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the past to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday -- his last day in office -- that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row. He also granted two other commutations and two ...

On his final day in office Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row. It comes on the heels of a similar decision days earlier by ...

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 ...