The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death penalty, including new execution methods and efforts to speed up capital cases.

The Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death row inmates, acting AG Todd Blanche says

Pope Leo XIV has taken another shot at Donald Trump by condemning the death penalty for the second day in a row.

Pope Leo has repeated his call for an end to the death penalty – just as Donald Trump’s administration moved to broaden execution for federal inmates. In a message sent to DePaul University in Chicago to mark the 15th anniversary of the state of Illinois abolishing the death penalty,