Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

Idaho has not carried out any executions by firing squads and a facility for such executions needs to be built. It is among the states that have turned to alternative methods after struggling to ...

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to what some consider an archaic execution method because of a ...

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

Trump has kicked off his second run as US president with a flurry of executive orders targeting climate, renewables and clean ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

For the third session in a row, Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the ...

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

Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, introduced the bill Tuesday, which would make Idaho the only U.S. state to give preference to a ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.