Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government's lethal injection protocol on the grounds that it causes unconstitutional suffering.

In remarks to Congress, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department said that "partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice will end" under her watch.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is pleased to announce the closure of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into the use of custodial informants, which began in December of 2016.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to end a years-long investigation into the systemic misuse of jailhouse informants, federal authorities announced on Friday, Jan. 17.

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital

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Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases and prove their claims of innocence.

The United States Department of Justice has announced it is withdrawing the federal government’s lethal injection protocol.

As legislatures convene in the coming weeks, many lawmakers are focusing on a key criminal justice issue for prisons and jails: oversight.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney General told the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to stop using pentobarbital, the same drug Tennessee selected in its new execution protocol, because it's unclear whether it causes unnecessary pain and suffering.

WASHINGTON—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 potential for “unnecessary pain and suffering.

Trump’s own social media company, Trump Media and Tech­no­logy Group, is in talks to buy Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading venue whose former CEO is Kelly Loeffler, who Trump has nominated to head his Small Business Administration. Trump also has his own crypto project, World Liberty Financial.