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

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...

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

By Jordan Rubin The death penalty has long been a focus of Donald Trump’s “tough on crime” approach, which demands strict consequences for his non-supporters. It’s no surprise, then ...

But a commutation to a life sentence would complicate his efforts to prove these claims, he wrote, by depriving him of the “heightened scrutiny” associated with death penalty cases.

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

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.

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

“Nearly 3,000 families will never be the same because of 9/11 — they have the right to see those responsible for their suffering face the death penalty,” New York’s 17th District rep adde ...

Texas has been the top executioner in the U.S. for decades, but the death penalty is declining due to legal and social factors.

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 ...