Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma's death row over concerns ...

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

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

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

I likely faced execution under Trump. Biden still has time to do the right thing. Life without parole remains an egregious ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to ...

President Donald Trump is ordering his attorney general to dramatically reverse Biden-era death penalty policy by seeking ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes ... against American citizens.” ...

The DOJ said that while not only are commutations legal, the president additionally has the authority to decide commutations.

A federal judge on Friday rejected a plea by Len Davis, a notoriously corrupt former New Orleans police officer, to remain on ...