The recommendation came in a DOJ report fulfilling Trump's promise to resume capital punishment at the federal level, while ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...

The U.S. Department of Justice plans to expand execution methods as President Donald Trump moves to speed up the process of ...

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

The Justice Department has reauthorized pentobarbital lethal injections and added firing squads as permitted federal ...

HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court lifted ...

RICHMOND, May 14 -- A federal appeals court took up an issue Wednesday with broad implications for how executions will be carried out nationwide: whether Virginia's method of lethal injection induces ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing ...