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 state’s interest in capital punishment appears to have cooled, according to available data, influenced by cultural shifts ...

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

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

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.

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

Sir Keir Starmer has found himself at odds with his party's core voter base after a bombshell poll reveals young people are ...