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

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

The Calcutta High Court is deliberating on appeals by the CBI and West Bengal government, both challenging the adequacy of a ...

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

(The Center Square) – Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The president is directing the Justice Department to overrule the Supreme Court in cases where the justices have found ...

January 22, 2025 – On Monday, President Donald Trump issued the following Executive Order: Restoring The Death Penalty And ...

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