Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the death penalty for the third ...

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

Iranian state media say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran’s capital in a rare attack targeting the ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...

Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

The Representative who introduced the bill, Bruce Skaug, said it is "less problematic" than execution by legal drugs.

The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose ...

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes ... against American citizens.” ...

Currently, the state’s primary method of carrying out the death penalty is lethal injection, and the firing squad is to be used if the chemicals for lethal injection cannot be obtained.