Idaho lawmakers have introduced a bill to make a firing squad the primary method of execution in the state. Under Idaho law, ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

A bill was introduced to the Idaho Legislature to make death by firing squad the main style of execution in the state.

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

As state leaders continue to take steps forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...

President Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders on his first day in office included one that will make sure Oklahoma has the drugs needed to carry out executions.

As state leaders continue to take steps towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump is taking action regarding capital punishment in his first days in office.

While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...