Former President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners, but newly inaugurated President Trump issued an executive order encouraging state and local prosecutors to pursue new charges against those same prisoners,

First came the Manhattan shooting death of a health insurance CEO. In the months that followed, a young couple working for the Israeli embassy, a Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her

Federal prosecutors are slamming Luigi Mangione's lawyers for making what the government said were "meritless" and "misleading" claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi's ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty against Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Federal law says that Nicolas Maduro could face the death penalty if convicted of drug trafficking conspiracy, although it is not common.

The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill that would allow firing squad executions for death penalty inmates.