April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday it is taking actions to strengthen the federal death penalty, including firing squads and readopting the lethal injection protocol. “Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration,

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.

The three inmates currently on death row in the federal prison system are Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; 2013 Boston Ma...

A proposed federal shift in marijuana policy could mark one of the most significant changes to cannabis regulation in decades.

The US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous, marking a major shift in the country's drug policy.

“These actions will enable more targeted, rigorous research into marijuana’s safety and efficacy, expanding patients’ access to treatments and empowering doctors to make better-informed healthcare dec...

The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed Thursday it has moved ahead with multiple referrals to strip citizenship from those who have naturalized, assigning cases to U.S. attorney offices across the ...

The US Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Thursday it would investigate how the department complied with a law requiring the release of investigative files on the late sex offender Jeffrey...

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is launching an investigation into the DOJ’s production of files and documents related to Jeffrey Epstein as controversy continues over the handling of the c...