For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated sharply after former US President Donald Trump issued a strong warning to Tehran over the proposed execution of Iranian protester Irfan Sultani.

A man who was executed after being found guilty in a rape and murder case in 1953 near Dallas Love Field airport has been exonerated. Now, 70 years later, Tommy Lee Walker was declared “innocent” by a ...

Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. The man, an I.C.U. nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.

The U.S. military launched strikes against Venezuela and captured its dictator, Nicolás Maduro, on Jan. 3 — emerging from the operation largely unscathed as it handicapped Venezuela’s defense systems ...

President Donald Trump pardoned 21 people Friday, multiple outlets report, including a banker whose daughter gave $3.5 million to the president’s super PAC—the latest pardons and commutations in Trump ...

An ICE officer records people inside their car using a cell phone during a traffic stop in St. Paul on Jan. 6.