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

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...

A lawmaker in the House of Representatives announced plans to introduce legislation that would abolish the death penalty in ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it reviewed its procedures. In a handwritten court filing this week ...

Human beings change. Being a staunchly anti–death penalty, pro-life person puts you in a pretty politically homeless place in an era of intense political partisanship. You don't fit neatly in a box.

Shortly after being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an order to expand the death penalty, confirming a widespread expectation that the Department of Justice may seek capital punishment more ...

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

Pro-life groups have applauded Biden’s move ... There is no amount of judicial process that can overcome the truth that the death penalty is the purposeful taking of a human being’s life.” ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes and acts of lethal violence against American ...