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.

The state’s interest in capital punishment appears to have cooled, according to available data, influenced by cultural shifts ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court will consider whether to order new nationwide precedent about how lower courts will consider facts over ...

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

Arnoldo Jimenez is accused of stabbing his gorgeous, young new bride to death- hours after they were married. He is on the ...

A routine traffic stop in Texas turned deadly within seconds when a police officer shot and killed 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes ...

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 ...

A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for stabbing a woman more than 60 times, stuffing her body in a suitcase, and dumping it in a river.

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...