In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

The Supreme Court found an Oklahoma woman convicted of murdering her estranged husband can pursue a claim that prosecutors ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row over concerns ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy, a former Kolkata Police civic volunteer, to imprisonment till death after he was ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...

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 ...

Brenda Andrew and her boyfriend, James Pavatt, were convicted of the 2001 murder of her husband, Rob Andrew. The Supreme ...