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

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

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

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

The Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, to imprisonment till death after he was ...

Supreme Court justices have sent Brenda Andrew's death penalty conviction back to a lower court for reconsideration after ...

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

Sanjay Roy was held guilty under Sections 66 (rape), 64 (causing injury resulting in death) and 103 (1) (murder) of the ...

Brenda Andrew, a former Sunday school teacher, argued that evidence about her personal life wasn't fair to use during her ...

A bill imposing the death penalty by firing squad for public officials convicted of corruption-related criminal charges has ...

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

The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls.