The U.S. Department of Justice has announced new execution protocols, adding firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation to the methods used for federal executions. This move follows ...

Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death row inmates, ...

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be ...

Capital punishment remains legal in several U.S. states, and while executions are relatively rare, the methods authorized by law continue to spark intense legal, ethical, and medical debate. Over time ...

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Vatican stance against the death penalty as several US states explore new execution methods, ...

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One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...

The Arizona Senate passed a measure that would let voters decide whether to allow firing squads as a death penalty option. The proposal comes after a history of problematic executions in the state ...