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

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

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

A new bill would make the firing squad Idaho's primary means of execution, after the state recently restored it as a backup ...

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

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

Reform MPs have called for a debate on bringing back the death penalty after the Southport killer's sentencing.

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

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond asked the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to transfer a convicted murderer from federal ...

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

U.S. authorities are preparing to transfer former federal death row prisoners — currently held in Terre Haute — to a ...

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...