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

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

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

Protest outside the Sealdah court during a demonstration rally demanding justice during convict Sanjay Roy’s hearing in the ...

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

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 ...

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

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee noted that had the Aparajita Bill come into effect, the death penalty would have been assured ...

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

The West Bengal government on Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking death penalty of convict Sanjoy Roy in the RG Kar hospital doctor’s rape and murder case, challenging the order of the trial ...

Expressing 'dissatisfaction' over a Kolkata court awarding life imprisonment to the convict in the RG Kar hospital case, West ...