Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...
One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...
President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...
Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.
The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...
Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...
Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...
Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...
The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...