Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi will push to end the weaponization of the legal system; lift the death penalty ban; and ...

A death penalty expert has been appointed to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. During a brief order on Tuesday, Federal Judge ...

Attorney Gilda Daniels and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett denounce Trump's expansion of the federal death penalty, citing racial disparities and systemic injustices.

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...

Attorneys for Stephan Sterns, accused of murdering Madeline Soto, seek to exclude evidence from his cellphone.

Bondi, in the memo, states that "any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief ... including U.S. attorneys' offices, seek the death penalty when appropriate — specifically ...

Stephan Sterns, the man facing a first-degree murder charge and the death penalty, if convicted, in the disappearance and death of 13-year-old Madeline Soto has filed nearly 50 motions in recent days ...

“The death penalty should be rare ... have discussed their proposal with Governor DeWine and believe he will sign it if it passes. If successful, Ohio would become the 24th state to abolish ...