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

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

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

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

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

A court in Kolkata has sentenced police volunteer Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a junior doctor, ...

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

Society / They believe a new sentence of life without parole will hurt their legal chances. Katie Rose Quandt On December 30, ...

A cause of death has been revealed for legendary MLB broadcaster Bob Uecker after he passes away at the age of 90.

Bryan Kohberger’s defense team is considering whether to assert a legal precedent set in another high-profile Idaho murder case in one more push to drop the death penalty as a possible sentence at ...