President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse ...

The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for ...

President Trump's administration endeavors to reverse death penalty decisions made by predecessors, but faces significant ...

Bryan Kohberger was outspoken about his support of the death penalty before he murdered four University of Idaho students.

Given the recent spate of executions, it may surprise you to learn that the increase is a false indicator of the state of the death penalty in America. Most of those executions took place many years, ...

Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

Bryan Kohberger allegedly supported the death penalty, despite later trying to avoid it through a plea deal in his murder ...

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

Three men awaiting trial in two separate murder cases will not face the death penalty if convicted, after judges rejected federal prosecutors’ requests to pursue capital punishment.

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

On paper, thirty-two states and the federal government currently allow capital punishment. But in practice, the death penalty has been largely abandoned throughout most of the United States.

This ruling voided the federal and state death penalty laws. However it allowed state legislatures and Congress to write and enact new capital punishment laws. In Gregg v.