Trump has directed the Justice Department to "prioritize" seeking the death penalty in federal cases.

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

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to resume executions by firing squad and lethal injection, following an executive ...

The Justice Department also said it was reviving a lethal injection protocol used during President Donald Trump’s first term.

A longtime commissioner is stepping aside, and the election could reshape the county’s executive/legislative branch.

Danny Parrish wanted to be a dad. The 29-year-old Army sergeant and his wife Mirtha were trying to get pregnant before he was to leave for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The couple thought they had a ...

The US Justice Department on Friday released a sweeping report calling for a significant expansion of the federal death penalty, including policy recommendations for faster executions, widening the ...

The clemency hearing of Raymond Johnson reveals an Oklahoma justice system that struggles to believe people can change.

President Trump with Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, in July. Mr. Trump had demanded an investigation into the ...

At the peak of the crackdown, carloads of masked immigration officers were a common sight in the streets of Minneapolis, ...

A bipartisan push to end a Missouri law allowing judges to impose the death penalty when jurors can’t agree has moved further ...

A bipartisan push to end a Missouri law allowing judges to impose the death penalty when jurors can’t agree has moved further ...