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

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

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

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

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 ...

The new number surpassed Dallas County, which previously ranked second with 13 people despite not sending anyone to death row since 2018. Harris County, the state’s most populous county ...

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 ...

Zimbabwe has about 60 prisoners on death row, and the new law spares them. The country last executed someone in 2005, partly because at one point no one was willing to take up the job of state ...

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 ...

partly because at one point no one was willing to take up the job of state executioner. President Mnangagwa faced the death penalty himself in the 1960s during Zimbabwe’s war of independence.

“These reviews are among the most difficult decisions a Governor can make, and the death penalty is the most severe sentence that the state can impose,” Cooper released in a statemen ...