Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington, just west ...

The Executive Orders are said by Trump critics as a rebuke to the Biden Administration’s decision to commute the 37 of 40 ...

The two hanging-judges, Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, were integral parts of a network of criminal clerics at the heart ...

Zimbabwe has recently banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

A bill was introduced to the Idaho Legislature to make death by firing squad the main style of execution in the state.

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...

While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's latest execution should be halted so that lawyers for the condemned inmate can get ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

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

Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.