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

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

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 ...

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

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

Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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

Currently, the state’s primary method of carrying out the death penalty is lethal injection, and the firing squad is to be used if the chemicals for lethal injection cannot be obtained.

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

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Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed petitions in federal court a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 ...