Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, ...

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White ... President Donald Trump signed a sweeping ...

Attorney Gilda Daniels and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett denounce Trump's expansion of the federal death penalty, citing racial disparities and systemic injustices.

The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...

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

In an executive order titled "Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety," Trump reversed a Biden-era moratorium on federal executions and instructed the attorney general to pursue ...

The renewed use of the death penalty, announced by executive order signed on his first day in office, comes just after former ...

The executive order, titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety,” provides a slew of directives for the U.S. attorney general and encourages states to increase use of ...