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

Arizona has set an execution date for a convicted killer on death row, marking the state's return to the death penalty after ...

A proposal moving through Florida’s Legislature would require the death penalty for “unauthorized aliens” who commit a ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous ...

In Florida, capital crimes include homicide, controlled-substance trafficking and sexual abuse of young children.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death penalty executions.

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

The initiative is part of a broader immigration package resulting from an agreement between state GOP lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

Lawmakers will discuss a package of immigration bills, including the highest penalty for those convicted of offenses such as murder.

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

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 ...