President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum seeking to reinstate the death penalty in Washington, DC, ...

Washington — President Trump said Tuesday the federal government would seek the death penalty for murders committed in Washington, D.C. It's the latest move in a federal crackdown on crime, with ...

President Donald Trump said he plans to pursue reviving the death penalty in Washington for those convicted of murder amid his crime crackdown in the nation’s capital. "If somebody kills somebody in ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

Rainey Bethea, a Black man, was publicly executed in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1936. Bethea was found guilty by an all-white, all-male jury in four and a half minutes. The author discovered her family's ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

Capital punishment remains one of the most controversial sentences around the world. Some countries have abolished this ...