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 ...

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% have involved other methods.

Ralph Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied to a tree with her throat slit.

For the first time, the Justice Department will allow firing squads for federal executions. Only three defendants remain on federal death row after former President Joe Biden converted 37 of their ...

The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the ...

Trump DOJ brings back 17th-century execution method to ‘strengthen the death penalty’ - Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said ...