Trump wants to ramp up the federal death penalty. Before he left, the former attorney general made that harder ...

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday.

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

Robert Mickens says no murderers should be granted plea deals, but this one comes as a 'slap in the face' with a suspect who ...

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said the decision by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland did not change her view of ...

WASHINGTON — During hearings on Merrick Garland’s nomination to be President Joe Biden’s attorney general, the longtime federal appeals court judge told senators in 2021 that he hoped to ...

In 2016, the American Bar Assn. couldn’t say enough good things about Merrick Garland, then the chief judge of the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and President Obama ...

What Merrick Garland had to deal with: confronting Jan. 6 and its aftermath, the investigations into the president's son ...