President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse ...

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

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

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

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 ...

This ruling voided the federal and state death penalty laws. However it allowed state legislatures and Congress to write and enact new capital punishment laws. In Gregg v.

Missy was pronounced dead in May after being found unresponsive at her home in Tallahassee’s Southwood neighborhood. Her ...