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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. government is seeking the death penalty for a convicted robber accused of murdering his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. Jasper Reed, 27, is accused in a federal ...

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 ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that federal executions are being halted. Garland said he was issuing a moratorium while the Department of Justice reviews its policies and ...

During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to seek the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. After taking office in 2025, Trump issued an executive order to resume ...