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.

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

Two independent contractors who worked on Arizona executions in 2022 received $60,000 in cash each, said retired U.S. Magistrate Judge David Duncan.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.