A federal judge has ruled Alabama's use of nitrogen gas to carry out executions does not violate the U.S. Constitution. U.S.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that it is expanding federal execution protocols to include methods such as firing squads alongside lethal injection, reversing a moratorium ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing prison officials to bring back firing squads to execute federal death row prisoners, reviving an execution method that hasn’t been used by the U.S.

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% ...

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation. The move is a ...

South Carolina's execution of a convicted murderer by firing squad marked the sixth use of capital punishment in the United ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In 2025, the United States saw a surge in executions after a period of decline. According to the Death Penalty Information ...

The Supreme Court on Monday in Whitton v. Dixon sided with a death row inmate for the second time in less than a week, ...

A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...