Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

The president is directing the Justice Department to overrule the Supreme Court in cases where the justices have found ...

Crowd cheers president-elect at Capital One Arena as he delivers campaign-style speech with his family, Elon Musk and JD ...

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose ...

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

When a crime shakes the public’s faith in humanity as these murders have, the debate around capital punishment soon rears its ...

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a Fort Lauderdale man charged in the murder of his estranged wife ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

John Fitzgerald Hanson was to have been executed in 2022 for a fatal shooting. The Biden administration blocked his transfer ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

Trump, upon taking office on Monday, signed a series of executive orders that included tough restrictions on immigration, a ...