The announcement is the latest example of a shift in the politics of the death penalty since Donald Trump returned to office.

While campaigning for president in 2024, Donald Trump promised to impose the death penalty for people convicted of selling drugs. As president in his second term, Trump issued an executive order ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Attorney Bryan Stirling, pictured at the U.S. attorney's office in Columbia, S.C., on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, is seeking the ...

Executions then resumed in 1977, when double murderer Gary Gilmore was put to death by firing squad. A steady rise in ...

The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a monthslong legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since 2003. Attorney ...

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 ...

Idaho prison officials must allow media witnesses at executions to watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District ...

A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man, said to be suffering from dementia, who was set to die by lethal injection in the federal government’s second execution this week after a 17-year ...

A Las Vegas man accused of killing a doctor and wounding five other people during an allegedly hate-driven mass shooting at a Laguna Woods church in 2022 was moved from county to federal custody this ...

Jeffery James Lee was convicted of killing two people while robbing a pawn shop in 1998 - his lawyers have attempted to stall ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration argued in a federal appeals court on Wednesday that it should be allowed to execute condemned inmates without delay after a lower ...