As state leaders continue to take steps forward towards carrying out their first execution in years, President Donald Trump ...

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

A resurfaced video of Syria's Justice Minister Shadi al-Waisi overeeing the execution of a woman for adultery, raises ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with ...

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Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the ...

The federal government will no longer use pentobarbital in executions due to concerns of "unnecessary pain and suffering," a ...

Tehran, United Arab Emirates: In a rare attack targeting the judiciary, two prominent hard-line judges were fatally shot in ...

The killings come as Iran faces economic turmoil, the mauling of its Middle East allies by Israel and the return of Donald ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is rescinding its ...