While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, it's signaling plans to target them in other ways.

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

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

Trump, upon taking office on Monday, signed a series of executive orders that included tough restrictions on immigration, 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 ...

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.

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

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

If there’s one thing Donald Trump promised ahead of his second term as President of the United States, it was ruthless ...

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

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