In a scathing criticism of the initial probe by Kolkata Police into the rape and murder of a junior doctor at state-run RG ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of the 2001 murder of her husband, Rob Andrew, an advertising executive and church deacon, who ...

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

A Nampa legislator wants to make death by firing squad the primary way of administering the death penalty in Idaho. Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, introduced the legislation to the Idaho House Judiciary, ...

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

Currently, the state’s primary method of carrying out the death penalty is lethal injection, and the firing squad is to be used if the chemicals for lethal injection cannot be obtained.

Brenda Andrew, convicted of murdering her husband, can pursue claim that prosecutors inappropriately focused on her sex life ...

Death row inmate Brenda Andrew argued that Oklahoma prosecutors “exploited sex-based stereotypes and presented concededly irrelevant evidence about her sexual history.” ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

Zeigler was nearly 31 years old when he was sentenced to death for two of the four murders that happened on Christmas Eve, 1975. He turns 80 in July.

President Donald Trump ordered the attorney general to hunt for instances of campaigns against perceived political opponents.

The court instructed an appeals court to reconsider whether lurid evidence tainted the trial of Brenda Andrew, the only woman ...