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

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.

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

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

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

The Sealdah court rejected CBI's plea seeking death penalty for Roy, saying the crime did not fall under the "rarest of the ...

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 ...

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

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

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