Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White ...
One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...
Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...
The Justice Department's new leadership directed prosecutors to potentially charge state or local officials who impede ...
The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...
President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice issued a moratorium on federal executions, “in defiance of his duty to faithfully ...
The Office of Personnel Management — the government’s top human resources agency – notified federal department heads in a ...
Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.
The acting deputy attorney general issued a memo directing the DOJ to significantly overhaul its approach to immigration ...
President Donald Trump began quickly implementing his agenda shortly after taking office on Monday by signing a slate of ...
Tuesday marks Donald Trump's first full day in office. Keep up with the USA TODAY Network's live coverage on his top ...