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

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

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

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

The Supreme Court found an Oklahoma woman convicted of murdering her estranged husband can pursue a claim that prosecutors ...

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

The Supreme Court ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row over concerns that prosecutors’ discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial unfair in the ...

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

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.” ...