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

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned ...

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

Donald Trump has wasted no time getting to work on implementing his controversial policies since being inaugurated as the ...

The Supreme Court ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row over concerns that prosecutors’ discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial unfair in the ...

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

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

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

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...