The president-elect has said the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was "cold-blooded" and "horrible." ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind ...

Capital punishment foes are worried about Trump’s campaign promise to seek death sentences for crimes other than murder.

Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the ...

Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 ...

David Anthony Runyon was found guilty in 2009 in the murder-for-hire slaying of Cory Allen Voss outside a Langley Federal ...

President-elect Trump vowed Tuesday to direct his Department of Justice to pursue the death penalty in the wake of President ...

Trump's first term, and the president-elect has said he plans to expand the use of the punishment in his second.

President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to reinstate the death penalty following President Joe Biden’s decision ...

Recent polling shows support for the death penalty at a five-decade low, and half of the population thinks the death penalty ...

Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of ...