The president is directing the Justice Department to overrule the Supreme Court in cases where the justices have found ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.

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

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

Trump, upon taking office on Monday, signed a series of executive orders that included tough restrictions on immigration, a ...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice issued a moratorium on federal executions, “in defiance of his duty to faithfully ...

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio expressed grave concern over the wave of new executive orders on immigration, the environment ...

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

President Donald Trump's wide-ranging executive orders on his first day in office included one that will make sure Oklahoma has the drugs needed to carry out executions.

Some of Trump's executive orders have an immediate policy impact. Others are more symbolic. Some already are being challenged ...