Previous research has shown that higher education dampens support for capital punishment, but University of Nebraska scholars have discovered those collegiate effects are lessened among conservatives.

WASHINGTON (7News) — 7News is learning how President Donald Trump’s push for the death penalty will be enforced in the District, how this will affect the way crimes are prosecuted in the District, and ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed federal leaders to implement the death penalty on certain D.C. crimes, after calling for capital punishment on all murders in the city ...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a memo directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in every eligible case in D.C. The order instructs the Attorney General and the ...

DETERRING AND PUNISHING HEINOUS CRIMES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to fully ...

Section 1. Background. Federal law provides for the death penalty for criminals found guilty of especially aggravated crimes (18 U.S.C. 3591(a)). Capital punishment is an essential part of how our ...

A new effort to restart the death penalty in North Carolina, enact stricter rules for bail and ramp up monitoring of alleged criminals with mental health problems passed the state House of ...

Luigi Mangione asked a U.S. judge to dismiss his federal indictment or bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, arguing statements by Attorney General Pam Bondi and others have violated his ...

Luigi Mangione should be spared the death penalty because prosecutors are more interested in putting on a “Marvel movie”-esque show than getting justice, his lawyers argued. The 27-year-old’s legal ...