The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...

Trump, upon taking office on Monday, signed a series of executive orders that included tough restrictions on immigration, a ...

There is neither a better time nor occasion than the Jubilee Year to abolish the death penalty in the United States, ...

The problems with the death penalty are well known, from exhibiting racial bias against defendants of color, to the very high cost of appeals and the great time involved. Capital punishment also ...

Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it reviewed its procedures. In a handwritten court filing this week ...

Montana does allow the death penalty, although a 2015 court ruling that found the specific substance in the law has precluded ...

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes and acts of lethal violence against American ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure ...