A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it ...

Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.

- May 12, 2018: In one of the quickest deliveries of justice the country has seen, a 25-year-old man who kidnapped, raped and ...

Idaho House Bill 37 aims to make the firing squad the state's primary means of execution as prosecutors prepare to try Bryan ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...