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

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.

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

DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton announced a new billboard campaign Thursday that reads, “WELCOME TO ...

The Department of Justice announced Friday it is moving to “strengthen” the federal death penalty, including by bringing back firing squads. The DOJ in a press release said it is “readopting the ...

"Today, the Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out exe ...

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The Justice Department is bringing back firing squads and other execution methods for federal death row inmates. Could Florida do the same?

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.

The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.

Pursuit of a remote-operated system to carry out the death penalty has been unsuccessful to date as the prison preps for a ...