Updated at 4:55 p.m. ET The U.S. government is poised to carry out the death penalty for the first time in nearly two decades, the Justice Department announced Thursday. U.S. Attorney General William ...

The Trump administration was moving ahead early Tuesday with the execution of the first federal prison inmate in 17 years after a divided Supreme Court reversed lower courts and ruled federal ...

Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt a proposed Addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol—clearing the way for the federal government to resume capital ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday refused to stop an upcoming nitrogen gas execution in Alabama saying the inmate was unlikely to prevail on claims that the method, which has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Attorneys for death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are suing the State of Tennessee, accusing prison ...