Pittman, 63, spent more than 34 years on Death Row after being convicted in 1991 for the stabbing deaths of Clarence and ...

The 22-year-old man who was arrested last week and accused of assassinating the prominent right-wing political activist ...

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo ...

DALLAS — One of the top-selling authors in the U.S. is taking on the high-profile case of Robert Roberson, whose execution ...

It is unclear how Mr. Trump would carry out his directive. The Supreme Court ruled that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional nearly half a century ago. By Chris Cameron Reporting from ...

President Donald Trump said that his administration will seek to bring back the death penalty for all murder cases in Washington, D.C., where capital punishment has been abolished since 1981. “If ...

Trump Proposes Death Penalty for Murder in DC VOICEOVER ENG Trump Proposes Death Penalty for Murder in DC US President Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for those convicted of murder in ...

On Tuesday, during a three-hour Cabinet meeting, President Trump said that his administration will seek the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington, D.C. He failed to provide any details on ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wants prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in murder cases in Washington, D.C. But that idea runs headfirst into the city’s local laws, which ...

President Trump spent more than three hours touting what he sees as his administration's achievements at his cabinet meeting. He weighed in on topics from reinstating the death penalty for murder ...

In 1962, Congress abolished the mandatory death penalty for Washington, D.C. One decade later, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down existing death penalty laws nationwide, forcing states to rewrite ...