Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

The pastor's young widow, Laura Dobson, sobbed on the stand during Steven Nelson's murder trial, saying: 'I didn't know this ...

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

A former police officer convicted of the murder of two men in 2013 has been executed on Wednesday (Feb 5). Iskandar bin ...

The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...

An inmate on South Carolina’s death row died by lethal injection on Friday night, the third execution carried out by the ...

Attorney Gilda Daniels and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett denounce Trump's expansion of the federal death penalty, citing racial disparities and systemic injustices.

Arizona death row inmate Aaron Gunches has asked to be executed next month. This comes as Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney ...

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Advises the attorney general to pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use, with special attention to crimes involving the murder of law enforcement or capital crimes ...

Iskandar Rahmat was found guilty of the murder of two men - a car workshop owner and his son - and sentenced to death on Dec ...