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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 is one of very few Western nations still using the death penalty, although public support for capital punishment has ...

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 ...

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

In some of the most shocking cases, inmates were killed in secret 'indoor executions' using blunt weapons, while defectors said they witnessed the shooting of pregnant women.