The Department of Justice is taking dramatic steps to reintroduce and strengthen the federal death penalty.  In a new 48 page ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very rarely in modern day United States: execution by firing squad. Senate ...