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

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

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

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On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...

A second chance for the creator of the dark web drug site the Silk Road might be coming from an unlikely savior.

A lawmaker in the House of Representatives announced plans to introduce legislation that would abolish the death penalty in ...

Zimbabwe has just banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital punishment’s return were a state of emergency to ...

A Republican lawmaker wants Arizona voters to allow executions by firing squad because, he says, riddling convicts with bullets is 'always humane.' ...

Nebraska parents could be notified when their child checks out books from public school libraries under a proposal put ...