Lawyers for a Tennessee death row inmate say they are concerned the state may be planning to use expired lethal injection ...

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

Death penalty cases often take years before they go to trial in Arizona. After a guilty verdict, the appeals and execution ...

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation. The move is a ...

Several Supreme Court justices have dissented from rulings allowing the use of nitrogen gas executions, questioning its ...

South Carolina's execution of a convicted murderer by firing squad marked the sixth use of capital punishment in the United ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing prison officials to bring back firing squads to execute federal death row prisoners, reviving an execution method that hasn’t been used by the U.S.

Florida accounted for nearly half of US executions in 2025, according to Amnesty International’s new annual report on the ...