The Trump administration wants to shorten the appeals process for people sentenced to death and add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of execution, the Department of Justice ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on April 24 that it will be bringing back firing squads, electrocution, pentobarbital injections, and gas chambers as permissible methods of execution for ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Gray News) - The Justice Department announced it is including death by firing squad as an execution method for federal death penalty cases. The department said in a statement Friday that it is ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Oyer faced sharp attacks from Republican senators over her role in Biden's death row clemency, including the Tree ...

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 ...