A federal judge on Thursday ruled that execution by nitrogen gas does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

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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 ...

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

A fierce legal battle is unfolding before the Florida Supreme Court over whether to halt the upcoming execution of death row ...

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...