In some of the most shocking cases, inmates were killed in secret 'indoor executions' using blunt weapons, while defectors ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced new execution protocols, adding firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation to the methods used for federal executions. This move follows ...

The Justice Department also said it was reviving a lethal injection protocol used during President Donald Trump’s first term.

By Jonathan Allen April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution ...

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 ...

A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the third man this year to ...

The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...

The U.S. Department of Justice plans to expand execution methods as President Donald Trump moves to speed up the process of ...

Trump DOJ brings back 17th-century execution method to ‘strengthen the death penalty’ - Justice Department is ‘standing with ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...