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

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced ...

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.

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

The Trump DOJ blamed President Joe Biden's administration for what they say were "extraordinary steps to weaken, delay, and ...

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 ...

AMY GOODMAN: Sister Helen Prejean, you have the Trump administration announcing plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation to its arsenal of methods to execute federal prisoners on ...

Trump's DOJ announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty critics are concerned ...