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 ...

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 ...

but Governor Katie Hobbs changed the date after claiming the state was not equipped with the staff required to carry out the executions. Arizona's use of the death penalty was paused in 2022 to ...

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 ...

An Iranian official has said he is willing to assist on humanitarian grounds the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya who has been sentenced to death in Yemen on charges of murdering a Yemeni citizen.

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.

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 ...

The College Football Playoff has itself an officiating controversy after Texas' thrilling 39-31 double-overtime win over Arizona State in the Peach Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal game ...