The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, ...

The president has signed several executive orders and acts into law during his lame duck period that make Trump's agenda harder to implement immediately.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 2024, Joe Biden, then in the last weeks of his presidency, made a final move to block the incoming Trump ...

A year after former President Joe Biden spared 37 prisoners on federal death row from execution by reducing their sentences to life in prison, the Trump administration is making good on its promise to ...

NH lawmakers and public commenters debate restoring death penalty as Gov. Kelly Ayotte supports return of capital punishment.

A total of 47 men, have been killed by states operating the death penalty throughout the duration of this year.

Ten federal prisoners whose death sentences were commuted to life by Biden have been moved to ADX Florence in Colorado, where ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

The U.S. Justice Department has urged the Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, despite President Joe Biden’s stated ...

WASHINGTON — As he prepared to take office three years ago, Joe Biden's incoming administration considered a host of options to fulfill a campaign pledge to end the federal death penalty.