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

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

The Justice Department has reauthorized pentobarbital lethal injections and added firing squads as permitted federal execution methods, reversing Biden-era restrictions. The move follows President ...

The DOJ is expanding federal execution protocols to include firing squads and gas asphyxiation, reversing a previous moratorium.

A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...

The US Justice Department has reintroduced the firing squad as an execution method, reflecting a shift in federal death ...

Pope Leo XIV sent a message of support to participants at a Catholic university event marking 15 years since the abolition of the death penalty in his home state of Illinois. On the same day, the ...

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 ...

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