The announcement is the latest example of a shift in the politics of the death penalty since Donald Trump returned to office.

Defendants in other high-profile death penalty cases have been down Bryan Kohberger’s road, faced with potentially making a ...

A South Carolina firing squad reportedly missed a direct hit on Mikal Mahdi's heart and prolonged his suffering, his ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday night that she will ask federal prosecutors to seek the death ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

GOP lawmakers seek to close ‘dangerous loophole’ preventing local prosecutors from seeking capital punishment for most ...

U.S. Attorney Robert Troester for the Western District of Oklahoma filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against ...

Texas, announced a bill that would create a federal option to pursue the death penalty for illegal aliens who murder.

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced it will seek the death penalty for an Oklahoma inmate charged with killing one ...

A new act is aiming for the federal government to pursue the death penalty in all 50 states, even where it's banned, for ...

The problem of secrecy now surrounding the execution process in the United States is well documented. Over the past decade, as the Death Penalty Information Center reports, death penalty states ac ...

It's unclear whether federal law was even broken when UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on a New York street.