Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

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

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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 ...

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

Supreme Court justices have sent Brenda Andrew's death penalty conviction back to a lower court for reconsideration after ...

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

In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk ...

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned ...

As Indonesian prosecutors prepared to appeal the jail sentence of a high-profile businessman which critics said was too ...

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