Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

Some of Trump's executive orders have an immediate policy impact. Others are more symbolic. Some already are being challenged ...

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

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

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

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

Here is more about the orders signed on Monday and whether they can be implemented: How do executive orders work? An executive order is a directive issued by the US president rela ...

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 ...

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

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

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

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...