Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death row inmates, acting AG Todd Blanche says ...

The Department of Justice released a report proposing the reinstatement and expansion of controversial federal execution ...

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 ...

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.

Throughout the report, the Justice Department referenced past Supreme Court rulings in capital cases, noting that the court ...

No. South Dakota used hanging and the electric chair before its first lethal injection execution in 2007. The state adopted ...

Idaho’s prison system has nearly completed execution chamber upgrades to carry out the death penalty by firing squad as the ...

Pope Leo XIV sent a message of support to participants at a Catholic university event marking 15 years since the abolition of the death penalty in his home state of Illinois. On the same day, the ...

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 ...

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 ...