Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

A fierce legal battle is unfolding before the Florida Supreme Court over whether to halt the upcoming execution of death row ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department plans to expand the methods used for federal executions, including allowing firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation, as the Trump administration ...

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

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 ...

The US Justice Department (DOJ) has announced plans to bring back the firing squad as a method of execution. It announced it ...

The US is one of very few Western nations still using the death penalty, although public support for capital punishment has ...