President Donald Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in ...

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

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

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

Director of Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism sends letter to US attorney general calling capital punishment 'a stain upon civilization and our religious conscience' ...

Newly released Idaho State Police documents reveal Bryan Kohberger supported capital punishment in classroom discussions ...

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

Three men awaiting trial in two separate murder cases will not face the death penalty if convicted, after judges rejected federal prosecutors’ requests to pursue capital punishment.

Robert Bowers, who murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was tried in federal court. There was no ...

Bryan Kohberger was outspoken about his support of the death penalty before he murdered four University of Idaho students.

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.

When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...