The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

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

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Trump, upon taking office on Monday, signed a series of executive orders that included tough restrictions on immigration, a ...

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government. His ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

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On December 30, two men filed handwritten, emergency petitions from the death row unit in USP Terre Haute, a federal prison ...