The federal government will resume executing death-row inmates after nearly two decades without doing so, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Attorney General William Barr directed the ...

Attorneys for Payton Gendron and federal prosecutors are moving ahead with the process of selecting a jury in the upcoming ...

The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a monthslong legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since 2003. Attorney ...

The announcement is the latest example of a shift in the politics of the death penalty since Donald Trump returned to office.

While campaigning for president in 2024, Donald Trump promised to impose the death penalty for people convicted of selling drugs. As president in his second term, Trump issued an executive order ...

A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man, said to be suffering from dementia, who was set to die by lethal injection in the federal government’s second execution this week after a 17-year ...

A Las Vegas man accused of killing a doctor and wounding five other people during an allegedly hate-driven mass shooting at a Laguna Woods church in 2022 was moved from county to federal custody this ...