The US Justice Department (DOJ) has announced plans to bring back the firing squad as a method of execution. It announced it ...

By Jonathan Allen April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted ...

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

ELON, N.C. — Update: On the deadline, Fri., Oct. 3, Gov. Josh Stein signed Iryna's Law. The clock is ticking on the fate of capital punishment, in a controversial bill Gov. Josh Stein has until Friday ...

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously abandoned.

The U.S. Department of Justice is reintroducing firing squads, electrocution, and other methods for federal executions. This policy change follows a day-one executive order from President Donald Trump ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department plans to expand the methods used for federal executions, including allowing firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation, as the Trump administration ...