According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Bruce “Firing” Skaug, R-Nampa, may succeed in getting more people executed in the Gem ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has received a jolt of momentum from public attention over the flurry of pardons and commuted sentences ...

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

Justice, at its core, is not a fluid concept. It is not subject to shifting political winds or the whims of executive power.

The flurry of directives that Attorney General Pam Bondi signed shifted investigative resources from foreign malfeasance to ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

Donald Walters, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to dog fighting and running a crack-cocaine ring in Tulsa, may be released five years early.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...