Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump’s administration is directing prison officials to bring back firing squads to execute federal death row ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration wants to shorten the appeals process for people sentenced to death and add firing squads, electrocution ...

The death row inmate has also appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to halt his planned execution Tuesday and allow ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing squads, gas asphyxiation and electrocution. In a 48-page memo ...

Professor Austin Sarat posits that President Donald Trump’s efforts to expand the federal death penalty and apply it to drug ...

The Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing squads, gas asphyxiation and electrocution. In a memo released on April 24, ...

The Trump administration said Friday it would allow executions by firing squad and restore the use of lethal injections in federal death-penalty cases. In a report, the Justice Department said many of ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that it will resume the federal use of capital punishment, and that it is seeking death sentences against 44 defendants. The DOJ also said that it ...

The Justice Department announced a series of actions on Friday aimed at restoring and expanding the use of the federal death penalty, including new execution methods and efforts to speed up capital ...

Capital punishment is legal in 27 US states. Four of those states have governor-imposed moratoriums. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in ...

U.S. District Judge Emily Marks issued the ruling that could stop the execution of Alabama death row inmate Jeffery Lee this week.

The Justice Department on Friday said it will seek to impose the death penalty in more federal cases and will expand the way in which convicted inmates can be killed—including bringing back the firing ...