Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the death penalty for the third ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

President Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders on his first day in office included one that will make sure Oklahoma has the drugs needed to carry out executions.

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

As state leaders continue to take steps forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

Two independent contractors who worked on Arizona executions in 2022 received $60,000 in cash each, said retired U.S.

Iranian state media say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran’s capital in a rare attack targeting the ...

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...