State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

Under Biden, officials decided not to seek capital punishment against two D.C. teens charged in a deadly carjacking. The ...

The U.S. has seen 34 executions so far in 2025, with eight more scheduled for later this year, including seven this month ...

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to continue the fight against the death penalty worldwide during a speech in homage to ...

Robert Badinter, the justice minister who ended the death penalty in 1981, was inducted into the Pantheon in Paris on ...

The death penalty remains a divisive issue in Taiwan, with activists calling for it to be abolished. Although a court ruling ...