The U.S. Department of Justice has announced new execution protocols, adding firing squads, electrocution, and gas ...

The US Department of Justice reintroduces firing squads for federal executions, citing drug shortages, sparking ethical and ...

A Department of Justice report issued Friday calls for returning the firing squad to the options for executing inmates facing ...

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday it is taking actions to strengthen the federal death penalty, including firing ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, listens to a bill on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) After an ...

More online: Our interactive chart and database allows you to explore Ohio's death row population and the counties in which they committed their crimes. View the ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, listens to a bill on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House ...