The U.S. Justice Department has reinstated firing squads and added electrocution and gas asphyxiation to federal execution methods, alongside lethal injection. Officials say the changes address drug ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

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

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 ...