Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual ...

President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, including seven from Texas, to life without parole.

Capital punishment foes are worried about Trump’s campaign promise to seek death sentences for crimes other than murder.

Trump's first term, and the president-elect has said he plans to expand the use of the punishment in his second.

Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the ...

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to "vigorously pursue" capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted ...

Donald Trump, reacting to Biden's death penalty commutations, promised to aggressively seek the death penalty for rapists, ...

This is what C.S. Lewis called "the humanitarian view of punishment." Depriving a murderer of liberty is not a penalty equal ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind ...

Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 ...