When Florida executes James “Ernie” Hitchcock on Thursday evening, the state will be ending the life of a prisoner who has ...

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be ...

Trump has directed the Justice Department to "prioritize" seeking the death penalty in federal cases.

Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death row inmates, ...

With two days away from his scheduled execution, Texas death row inmate James Broadnax remains hopeful.

Last year, Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis executed more death row inmates than any other state. Florida is on a similar pace ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last January, prioritizing the use of the death penalty in federal cases.

Trump's DOJ announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty critics are concerned ...

The court denied two of Broadnax's attempts to pause his execution for the murders of two Christian music producers in ...

The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death ...