The Department of Justice released a report proposing the reinstatement and expansion of controversial federal execution ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

While many countries have abolished capital punishment, a number still carry out executions using methods that can seem archaic, unsettling, or deeply unusual by modern standards. These practices are ...

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 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative ...

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