The country’s Permanent Secretary for Justice, Vimbai Nyemba, revealed that key officials, including legal and prison ...

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

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

As state leaders continue to take steps forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

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

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 ...

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

On his first day back in the Oval Office as the 47th President, Donald J. Trump launched an unprecedented wave of executive ...

The West Bengal government has appealed the life sentence of Sanjoy Roy, seeking the death penalty for his conviction in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed ...