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

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

President Donald Trump is demanding the death penalty for all murders in Washington, D.C. despite capital punishment being banned in the capital more than 40 years ago. The president made his ...

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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will seek the reinstatement of the death penalty for murder cases in the nation's capital, a policy that he has wanted to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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