Several Supreme Court justices have dissented from rulings allowing the use of nitrogen gas executions, questioning its ...

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 ...

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The U.S. Department of Justice is reintroducing firing squads, electrocution, and other methods for federal executions. This policy change follows a day-one executive order from President Donald Trump ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that it is expanding federal execution protocols to include methods such as firing squads alongside lethal injection, reversing a moratorium ...

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 ...

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

The Arizona Senate passed a measure that would let voters decide whether to allow firing squads as a death penalty option. The proposal comes after a history of problematic executions in the state ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative ...