A Utah judge has set an execution date for a man with dementia who has been on death row for 37 years, despite appeals from his legal team. Ralph Leroy Menzies, is set to be executed by firing squad ...

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

Church leader Justin Zhong endorsed the remarks delivered by lay pastor Stephen Falco during a Men’s Preaching Night service ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and ...

Joe Biden says he’s changed his mind on the death penalty. Why isn’t he doing more to stop it? “He assured me that on his watch, there would be no federal executions,” Congresswoman Ayanna ...

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop ...

Trump criticises Biden's death row decisions - saying he backs capital punishment for 'rapists, murderers, and monsters' Mr Trump was responding to President Joe Biden's decision to reduce the ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on ...

In the latest in a series of shameful closing acts, President Joe Biden on Sunday night commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 murderers on federal death row. Biden’s midnight decision spared the ...

Biden offered mercy to 37 of the 40 murderers on death row — some of whom abducted and sexually assaulted their victims before killing them.