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

Amid the raging debate over a Kolkata court sentencing R G Kar hospital rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death, legal luminaries are unequivocal in their stand against awarding ...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice issued a moratorium on federal executions, “in defiance of his duty to faithfully ...

(The Center Square) – Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment.

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White ...

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

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

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

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

January 22, 2025 – On Monday, President Donald Trump issued the following Executive Order: Restoring The Death Penalty And ...

Reform UK's Greater Lincolnshire mayoral candidate Dame Andrea Jenkyns has called for the return of capital punishment ...

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