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 ...

Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating the death penalty in Washington DC from the Oval Office on Thursday (25 September) ...

Confronting a national tragedy, thoughtful leaders need to maintain a degree of perspective. It is fitting to express disapproval, and to share sympathy with those impacted. But one shouldn’t be ...

President Trump said he’d like to see the suspect in custody for Charlie Kirk’s killing to get the death penalty, if he is ...

Kirk might have agreed — in a video clip often cited as evidence of his politically extreme views, he once advocated for televised public executions with corporate sponsors, wit ...

Donna Adelson, the matriarch behind the 2014 murder-for-hire of Dan Markel, is set to be sentenced to life in prison in a ...

Kirk said during a 2024 podcast that watching executions of convicted criminals would be an "initiation" for children.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) on Friday signed into law new criminal justice legislation in honor of Iryna Zarutska, 23, who was killed while in transit on the Charlotte light rail in ...

The North Korean government is increasingly implementing the death penalty, including for people caught watching and sharing ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should urge Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to halt an execution ...