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

Idaho lawmakers have introduced a bill to make a firing squad the primary method of execution in the state. Under Idaho law, ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at assisting states in carrying out capital punishment. The order empowers the Attorney General to ensure the availability ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

Israeli army continues military offensive in Jenin since Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, injuring 40 others - Anadolu Ajansı ...

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the ...

President Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders on his first day in office included one that will make sure Oklahoma has the drugs needed to carry out executions.

Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the death penalty for the third ...

Late last month Biden commuted the sentences of 37 individuals on death row to life without the possibility of parole. Now ...

Five political prisoners held in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj have issued a condemnation of the Supreme Court's decision to ...