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 Trump administration was moving ahead early Tuesday with the execution of the first federal prison inmate in 17 years after a divided Supreme Court reversed lower courts and ruled federal ...

A Georgia inmate's request to die by a firing squad instead of lethal injection is denied by a federal court.

A year after former President Joe Biden spared 37 prisoners on federal death row from execution by reducing their sentences to life in prison, the Trump administration is making good on its promise to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill Tuesday that would allow firing squad executions for death ...

Julius Jones and three other Oklahoma death row inmates have told a federal appeals court that an execution last week was a debacle that proves corrections officials have not learned a thing in six ...