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

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

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose ...

President Donald Trump ordered the attorney general to hunt for instances of campaigns against perceived political opponents.

With their recent commutation of death sentences for federal prisoners, President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland are leaving ... the single defendant for whom he and Garland authorized ...

Trump during his first term, the most of any president in modern history. Trump had often suggested on the campaign trail ...

During Biden’s presidency, the Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland ... executions and expand the reach of capital punishment under federal law when he takes office.

Under Biden in 2021, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered a moratorium ... a supporter of expanding capital punishment. In July 2020, the Trump Administration ended a 17-year hiatus ...

But people familiar with the matter said Mr Biden ultimately accepted the recommendation of Attorney-General Merrick Garland ... the modern framework for capital punishment.

His attorney general, Merrick Garland ... acknowledged a certain irony in opposing capital punishment but supporting her husband’s quest to maintain his death sentence. It’s a “very drastic ...