The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp ...

FILE – The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. Texas continued a long-term downward trend in capital punishment in ...

Richard Randolph, a man who was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his manager at a convenience store in 1988, was executed in Florida on Thursday night. It was the 17th death sentence ...

The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the history of America’s long journey toward the abolition of capital punishment is written, it will be studded with the ...

New Hampshire lawmakers are taking up a range of bills this month that would reinstate the use of the death penalty in the state, almost seven years after it was repealed. The proposals this year, all ...

The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. (Photo courtesy of the Utah State Department of Corrections) A bill to add the ...

A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House this week, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation could still be ...