The Department of Justice released a report proposing the reinstatement and expansion of controversial federal execution ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that federal executions are being halted. Garland said he was issuing a moratorium while the Department of Justice reviews its policies and ...

The federal government has not previously included firing squad as a method of execution in its protocols, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Five states currently allow executions by ...

The Trump Administration has announced the restoration of capital sentences in the United States, allowing the Department of Justice to carry out ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is halting federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months. Attorney ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department wants to dramatically expedite capital punishment cases in the U.S. and to reauthorize the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital as well as the ...