One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

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

Advises the attorney general to pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use, with special attention to crimes involving the murder of law enforcement or capital crimes ...

The executive order, titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety,” states that US policy must “ensure that the laws that authorize capital punishment are respected and f ...

Of the many executive orders President Donald Trump issued, one reinstates federal capital punishment. The order, “Restoring the death penalty and protecting policy safety,” states that capital ...

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...

The steady decline in executions in the United States could see a reversal with President Trump seeking the expansion of capital punishment.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Trump's executive order not only will revive capital punishment at the federal level, but attempt to expand the death penalty by directly supplying drugs to states and overturning Supreme Court ...

In a flurry of executive actions, the president has made moves on everything from gender ideology to the death penalty, with ...