The public prosecutor of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formally requested the death penalty for former president ...

Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh told the state Supreme Court that prosecutors have broad discretion to seek ...

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

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

New Delhi- Article 32 of the Constitution empowers the court to reopen sentencing in cases of capital punishment on grounds ...

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

On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...

The three-judge bench, however, cautioned that such a right provided to a death row convict should not be misused as an ...

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

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

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.