April 24 (UPI) --The Department of Justice said on Friday it has reinstated the use of lethal injection and expanded the execution protocol to include firing squad, which are among other moves to ...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 former death row inmates to the federal "supermax" prison in Colorado, ruling the move likely violated their Fifth ...

The Justice Department on Friday said it will seek to impose the death penalty in more federal cases and will expand the way in which convicted inmates can be killed—including bringing back the firing ...

A judge has cleared the way for South Carolina to pursue the death penalty against Brandon Council.

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 death row inmates, converting their punishments to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

State prosecutors began the process for setting a schedule in the man’s trial where the state is seeking a death sentence.

Florida authorities have arrested a repeat offender whose federal prison sentence was commuted in the final days of former President Joe Biden’s administration, prompting a state review of clemency ...