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.

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

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

Trump’s DoJ says it is taking steps to ‘strengthen the federal death penalty’ in opposition to Biden-era policies ...

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% ...

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 ...

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