Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...

Florida plans to execute former cop James Duckett at noon ET on July 28 for an 11-year-old girl's murder. Six hours later, ...

The Trump administration wants to shorten the appeals process for people sentenced to death and add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of execution, the Department of Justice ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.