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

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

One of his federal charges is eligible for the death penalty. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday appointed a death penalty expert to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bipartisan group of lawmakers, interdenominational religious leaders and activists are calling for an end to ...

Meanwhile, Bondi also will end the moratorium on federal executions and order that federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice, including U.S. attorneys' offices, seek the death penalty when ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said. Biden is commuting the death ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery.

Before that, the law was broadly applied by DOC and former Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office to shield details about how the state ...

Two new Canadian studies are the largest to date looking at death rates and psychosis associated with cannabis use disorder. By Roni Caryn Rabin Hospital and emergency room patients diagnosed with ...