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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. has carried out the first federal execution in nearly two decades, putting to death a man who was convicted of killing an Arkansas family in the 1990s in a plot to build a whites-only nation ...

President Biden’s Justice Department has ordered a moratorium on carrying out federal death sentences after a surge in executions under the Trump administration. By Hailey Fuchs Dustin Lee Honken was ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Family members of three people slain in Arkansas more than 20 years ago have been among the most vocal opponents to the federal government's plan to execute one of the men ...