Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

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

President Donald Trump has signed the executive order against those who 'have defied and subverted the laws of our country'.

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

As state leaders continue to take steps forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee noted that had the Aparajita Bill come into effect, the death penalty would have been assured ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The West Bengal government on Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking death penalty of convict Sanjoy Roy in the RG Kar hospital doctor’s rape and murder case, challenging the order of the trial ...

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

KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed dismay at the Sealdah court awarding jail till death to RG Kar ...