Mozambique's new interior minister said on Wednesday that the population should not fear the police, pointing to restoring ...

Proposals to make the Pardon and Parole Board members full-time state employees, institute a death penalty moratorium and mandate automatic expungement are up for consideration this year.

It comes after Iranian authorities executed another man convicted of assaulting dozens of women in Tehran in December ...

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

A bill put forward by Republican lawmakers in Idaho has just passed a judiciary committee to make firing squads the primary execution method in the state, following the failure of the lethal injection ...

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned ...

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

As state leaders continue to take steps forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...