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 ...

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 ...

Community members came together to protest the death penalty as the conversation ramps up over its legality in North Carolina ...

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.” ...

Thirty-five men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, including one early Friday, with seven ...

The increase in executions is largely being driven by four states — Florida, Texas, Alabama and South Carolina — that have ...

In an interview with CBS News, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of the Supreme Court's emergency orders in the Trump cases, ...

AN INQUIRY is needed to “get to the truth” about what happened in the care of children with scoliosis and spina bifida at CHI, Taoiseach Micheal Martin confessed today. The Government this week ...

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Arsenal and Newcastle United headlined the Premier League festivities on Sunday with VAR having to intervene early in the game. Eberechi Eze tried to find Bukayo Saka with a looping ball about 15 ...