While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, it's signaling plans to target them in other ways.

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 ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond has asked the Pardon and Parole Board to reject clemency for Oklahoma death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom.

A bill was introduced Tuesday to make the firing squad the primary method of execution by the state. Currently, the state’s ...

(The Center Square) – Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment.

President Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders on his first day in office included one that will make sure Oklahoma has the drugs needed to carry out executions.

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

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

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