The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi will push to end the weaponization of the legal system; lift the death penalty ban; and ...

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

I am grateful to Connecticut for banning the death penalty, but it is deeply troubling to me that Connecticut companies are ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

A federal judge in Buffalo has ruled that a hearing will be held later this year to determine whether the 19-year-old Tops ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo has suggested the end of May as the start time for hearings from the prosecution and ...