President Donald Trump signed an executive order last January, prioritizing the use of the death penalty in federal cases.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said the chances of an execution going forward are higher now because the state ...

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be ...

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.

The Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing ...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has lifted a Biden-era moratorium on capital punishment and reinstated firing squads as ...

Family members said they have waited nearly 50 years for Hitchcock’s execution. More than a dozen plan to witness his death.

The moves were announced as part of a broader push to step up federal executions after a moratorium under the Biden ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, ...

Due to a new law, the remains of a convicted rapist and alleged serial murderer have been removed from a national cemetery in ...