Here is more about the orders signed on Monday and whether they can be implemented: How do executive orders work? An ...

President Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders on his first day in office included one that will make sure Oklahoma has the drugs needed to carry out executions.

The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To unwind the spiderweb that we often see in this is often a challenge,” he said about the back-to-back murders last April.

Here's what you need to know about how many executive orders Trump signed on Inauguration Day, as well as how they could ...