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

A death penalty trial ended in a hung jury on Thursday, with the judge declaring a mistrial for a man accused of killing and dismembering his wife’s ex-lover more than eight years ago. Anthony Newton, ...

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

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long national decline in executions and provide federal ...

The family of a death row inmate who was executed while he was preparing to request a retrial has filed a civil lawsuit ...

THE judiciary in Pakistan does not have established sentencing guidelines for the application of the death penalty.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A man convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl from Mesa has been given the death penalty ... filed a missing person’s report on Dec. 5, 2013, after she ...

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took office in May 2024, has maintained the city-state’s harsh death penalty ...

The understanding of mitigating and aggravating circumstances has evolved over the years, and new factors have been added to ...