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

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.

The last time this many red Maga hats descended on Washington DC, American democracy faced a mortal threat. Four years later, ...

On his first day back in the Oval Office as the 47th President, Donald J. Trump launched an unprecedented wave of executive actions aimed at systematically dismantling policies from the previous ...

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 ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose ...

India's West Bengal state launched an appeal on Tuesday to overturn a life sentence in favour of the death penalty for a ...

I have not seen much press about President Trump's order concerning the death penalty. But several provisions could prove to be quite significant. First, ...

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

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on the death penalty Monday, directing the attorney general to “take ...