The Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing squads, gas asphyxiation and electrocution. In a memo released on April 24, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Justice Department will allow executions by firing squad and reinstate the use of pentobarbital for lethal ...

The Trump DOJ blamed President Joe Biden's administration for what they say were "extraordinary steps to weaken, delay, and dismantle the death penalty" Justin Sullivan/Getty The Trump Department of ...

The U.S. government should add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, the Department of Justice said on Friday in a ...

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder outside a music studio in ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Justice Department on Friday said it will seek to impose the death penalty in more ...