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

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

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

Texas has been the top executioner in the U.S. for decades, but the death penalty is declining due to legal and social factors.

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

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

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

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

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