Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

When a crime shakes the public’s faith in humanity as these murders have, the debate around capital punishment soon rears its head again ...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice issued a moratorium on federal executions, “in defiance of his duty to faithfully ...

Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment. The order, “Restoring ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer a convicted murderer from federal ...

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

Reform MPs have called for a debate on bringing back the death penalty after the Southport killer's sentencing.

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

The president is directing the Justice Department to overrule the Supreme Court in cases where the justices have found ...

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

Most of us had to call a halt to the amount of detail of the frenzied murders of the three Southport girls killed last July ...