Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment. The order, “Restoring ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

The Calcutta High Court has reserved its order on two appeals challenging the sentence of Sanjay Roy, convicted for the rape ...

The West Bengal government and CBI have both appealed for capital punishment for Sanjay Roy, convicted in the RG Kar rape-murder case. The victim’s parents, however, prefer the trial of other accused ...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice issued a moratorium on federal executions, “in defiance of his duty to faithfully ...

Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed earlier this week. “The ...

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

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

The Order requires that laws authorizing capital punishment are respected and faithfully implemented. The Attorney General is mandated ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the ...

Amid the raging debate over a Kolkata court sentencing R G Kar hospital rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death, legal luminaries are unequivocal in their stand against awarding ...