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

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

Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes ... against American citizens.” ...

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

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

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

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

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government review raised concerns about the potentia ...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to consider dropping the federal charges against Donald Trump's former co-defendants in the classified ...

(CNN) — After a tumultuous tenure clouded by two failed criminal prosecutions against the incoming president, Attorney General Merrick Garland is leaving the Justice Department the same way he came in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...