Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

Oklahoma death row inmate Brenda Andrew could get another trial after the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and said she may not ...

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

In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to what some consider an archaic execution method because of a ...

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

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

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...