The indictment followed a violent confrontation in St. Thomas’ Hospital Ground area, where Dangleben allegedly opened fire on ...

A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

However, only three individuals remain on federal death row after former President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 people on Dec. 23 and instead sentenced them to lif ...

The decision was a blow to prosecutors pursuing the longest-running death-penalty case in the military commission system.

However, between 1917 and 1955, the death penalty abolition movement again slowed. Washington, Arizona, and Oregon in 1919-20 reinstated the death penalty. In 1924, the first execution by cyanide ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

A poll has found more than half of people want capital punishment to return - but there's a reason Britons would not be able ...

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

But in 1878, following several high-profile lynchings and a perceived nationwide crime wave, Iowa reinstated the death penalty. It would remain on the books for another 87 years. Prior to its ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Among the slew of executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office, he signed one order calling to reinstate the death penalty for federal ...