No, a Feb. 5 DOJ memo does not authorize the death penalty solely for being an undocumented immigrant
A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...
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Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states ...
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Expanded death penalty order raises concerns over racial disparities
Attorney Gilda Daniels and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett denounce Trump's expansion of the federal death penalty, citing racial disparities and systemic injustices.
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...
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Trump signs executive order on death penalty: What will change
President of the United States of America Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the death penalty. The Attorney General has been instructed to assist states in obtaining lethal injection ...
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
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Trump Signs Pro-Death-Penalty Order, Calls Capital Punishment an ‘Essential Tool’
Trump in his order describes the death penalty as an “essential tool for deterring and punishing those who would commit the most heinous crimes and acts of lethal violence against American ...
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Ominous new sign Luigi Mangione will face the death penalty 'for shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson'
A death penalty expert has been appointed to the defense team of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. During a brief order on Tuesday, Federal Judge ...
Two Texas fathers are sentenced to death, but questions linger
Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...
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How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’
People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...